Cork Board of Guardians IE CCCA/BG/69
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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.
(c.40pp)
BG/69/FN
Porter’s Admissions and Disch arges Books
Scope and Content: Record of admission showing Date and time of entering workhouse, observations (means of transport, e.g. foot, gingle, ambulance), name, age, classification (such as, ablebodied working males/females, aged and infirm, boys and girls under 15, children, infants) by whom admitted. Discharges showing number on discharge block, number in (indoor relief) register, name, classification, date and time of discharge, observations (e.g. ‘to asylum’, and ‘boarded out to Mrs Healy Kerry Pike’.
Date : 1918 – 1924 (gaps)
Level : Series
Extent : 4 vols. (each c.200ff)
See also : Indoor Relief Registers, BG69/G
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