Cork Board of Guardians IE CCCA/BG/69
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8 Nov 1847 – 19 Jul 1865
Includes: (24 April 1848) House Committee. In compliance with resolution of the Board of Guardians, the committee examined the salaries of employees and recommend reducing posts (25 Sep 1848) House Committee. Recommend removal of back wall from the windows of the school room (13 Nov 1848) House Committee. The committee considers the giving of leather shoes to the paupers to be a strong encouragement to desertion, and recommend the immediate purchase of 300 pairs of wooden clogs (14 Apr 1849) House Committee. Congratulates the Board on the sanitary state of the house, cholera having ‘nearly disappeared’. (13 Feb 1855) School Committee; visit to boys girls and infant schools, present were 276 healthy boys and 139 infirm boys in a separate room. State of clothing unsatisfactory. (26 Nov 1861) House Committee, resolved that the Master and Matron be held strictly responsible for the superintendence of their respective divisions (29 Nov 1861) Accommodation Committee, some overcrowding noted and solutions proposed. (21 Jan 1862) House Committee, details of new approved suit for use by male inmates, costing 15s.2d, compared to present suit which costs £1.1.6¼ (26 Feb 1864) House Committee, case of Daniel Linehan brought to Board, concerning how an application for out relief was presented by the Relieving Officer.
2.
8 May 1899 – 18 Oct 1900
Includes: (8 May 1899) Report of Visiting Committee meeting chaired by Alderman Edward Fitzgerald; Note overcrowded state of lunatic wards and unfitness of St.Josephs ward, recommend that the County Council take these over as auxiliary lunatic asylum. (18 May 1899) Complaint of inmate J. Gardiner regarding his treatment in the workhouse. (5 Apr 1900) New maternity hospital recommended (7 Jun 1900) Services of Captain Hutson of Cork Fire Brigade employed to inspect fire equipment at work house. Also, newscutting, March 1901, relating to the religious treatment of an inmate at Cork workhouse, inquiry by House Committee. (1899-1900) At rear of volume, minutes of Finance Committee, concerning superannuation, supply of vegetables for inmates, milk supply, clothes for boarded out children, claims by rate collectors etc.
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