Cork Board of Guardians IE CCCA/BG/69
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BG/69/FM/
Visiting Committees Report Books
Scope and Content: Contains handwritten accounts of visits to the workhouse and reports and recommendations made to the Board of Guardians by various committees, mainly the house committee, but also visiting committee, school committee, special committee, and accommodation committee.
Date : Nov 1847 – Oct 1900
Level : Series
Extent : 2 items
1.
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.
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