Midleton workhouse Board of Guardians (BG118)

Midleton Board of Guardians IE CCCA BG/118

67.

6 Apr 1878 – 28 Sept 1878

Includes:

6 Apr 1878 Sanitary Officer’s report regarding the public pump near Carrigtwohill, the well for which is used as a ‘public closet’, the houses lacking sanitary accommodation.

27 Apr 1878 Medical Officer’s report suggesting ‘that as the epidemic of measles is not declining that the schools remain closed until further notice’.

25 May 1878 Sanitary Officer’s report regarding Green’s Lane, Midleton, which he considers unsanitary and ‘entirely unfit for habitation’, noting ‘whenever cholera or smallpox have vi sited this town they always originate in this lane’.

22 Jun 1878 Sanitary Officer’s report on common lodging houses in the town of Midleton.

31 Aug 1878 Resolved, that the first business of the new board each year be the appointment of a committee to report on the revision of the out door relief list.

68.

5 Oct 1878 – 29 Mar 1879

Includes:

5 Oct 1878 Report of the visiting committee, concluding ‘the house is a model of cleanliness and order’; resolved, that the board be the executive committee, and that the dispensary committees be sub-committees, under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act 1878. 16 Nov 1878 LGB letter advising the keeping of minutes of proceedings under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act; LGB letter regarding the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878.

23 Nov 1878 Letter reporting a case of smallpox [near Aghada], the affected child having been twice vaccinated.

25 Jan 1879 Report by Arthur and Henry Hill, architects, regarding increasing accommodation in the hospital.

1 Feb 1879 Medical Officer’s report regarding the sequestration of epileptics.

15 Mar 1879 Notices to quit the workhouse farm and dispensary, issued on behalf of Viscount Midleton.

29 Mar 1879 LGB letter regarding a bill for providing dispensary houses and dwelling houses for medical officers ‘in certain parts of Ireland’.

69. 70. 71.

5 Apr 1879 – 27 Sept 1879 4 Oct 1879 – 27 Mar 1880

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