Midleton workhouse Board of Guardians (BG118)

Midleton Board of Guardians IE CCCA BG/118

72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83.

2 Oct 1880 – 26 Mar 1881 2 Apr 1881 – 18 Mar 1882 1 Oct 1881 – 18 Mar 1882 25 Mar 1882 – 16 Sept 1882 23 Sept 1882 – 17 Mar 1883 24 Mar 1883 – 15 Sept 1883 22 Sept 1883 – 1 Mar 1884 8 Mar 1884 – 30 Aug 1884 6 Sept 1884 – 21 Feb 1885 28 Feb 1885 – 22 Aug 1885 29 Aug 1885 – 13 Feb 1886 20 Feb 1886 – 14 Aug 1886

Includes:

14 Aug 1886 LGB letter requesting plan, specification, and estimate for augmenting the workhouse hospital; resolution requesting that the government stop evictions, and expressing confidence ‘that the most powerful statesman England has seen, and our trusted leader, Mr Parnell will yet carry the only measure that will save the country from utter ruin and destruction’.

84.

21 Aug 1886 – 19 Feb 1887

This and subsequent volumes contain minutes of proceedings under the Labourers’ Acts , following ordinary proceedings as a rural sanitary authority.

85. 86.

26 Feb 1887 – 20 Aug 1887 27 Aug 1887 – 18 Feb 1888

Includes:

27 Aug 1887 Letter containing legal opinion on petitions lodged against the Midleton Union Labourers’ Order 1887, and on the supplemental report by Colonel Spaight. It is advised that the Board contest all the petitions.

87. 88.

25 Feb 1888 – 18 Aug 1888 25 Aug 1888 – 16 Feb 1889

Includes:

8 Sep 1888 Resolved, to set up a committee to inquire into the system of boarding out orphan and deserted children.

29 Sep 1888 Reports by relieving officers on orphans out at nurse [a recurring item].

24 Nov 1888 Resolution regarding a recent disturbance in Midleton, deploring the ‘cowardly and inhuman conduct of the police on that occasion on account of which a quiet and unoffending young man lost his life by being brutally bayoneted by them’.

19 Jan 1889 Resolved, that LGB be asked to send its inspecting engineer to

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