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IE CCCA/BG/65 Clonakilty Board of Guardians
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2 Jan 1852 – 31 Dec 1852
The volume is indexed, and includes a distinct index for Medical Charities proceedings. A supplemental sheet for these proceedings follows the ordinary minutes. The ‘Observations’ field of the ‘State of the Workhouse’ table preceding each set of minutes includes a note of total Clonakilty inmates on corresponding dates one and two years previously (three years from 8 Oct). The includes notes following refer primarily to the final transfer of Clonakilty inmates to the new workhouse from other unions, and are not intended to give a broad sample of this volume’s content. Includes: 2 Jan 1852 Total inmates: 521 (Clonakilty:483; Bandon: 28; Skibbereen: 10). Resolution asking the PLC to rescind or modify the reservation orders for Clonakilty inmates in Bandon and Skibbereen workhouses. 9 Jan 1852 Total inmates: 545 (Clonakilty: 539; Bandon: 3; Skibbereen: 3). PLC letter regarding a resolution ordering discharge of a woman and her children ‘as she will not prosecute her husband for desertion’. Resolved, to lay proposed stated dietary before the PLC for approval. [PLC response (16 Jan) notes ‘no meat included’ . See also 6 Feb]
16 Jan 1852 Visiting Committee report making a number of recommendations including ‘that a burial ground be procured in the vicinity of the workhouse’.
23 Jan 1852 Medical officer’s report calling attention to several deficiencies, including ‘the want of hospital accommodation’, the lack of union clothing for boys (many of whom are ‘still wearing their own filthy rags, without any covering for their feet’), and the fact that ‘the soup for dinner is made without vegetables of any kind’. 30 Jan 1852 Report of the visiting committee on the workhouse, consisting of answers to PLC queries and general observations. They note that ‘it is absolutely necessary’ to build fever sheds and that hot water is ‘much wanted’. PLC Orders received altering the reservation orders with Bandon and Skibbereen [one inmate in Bandon and two in Skibbereen at this time]. Resolution seeking PLC permission to order medicines for Rosscarbery and Timoleague districts ‘for the present emergency’. 6 Feb 1852 Sealed order received declaring dispensary districts and giving instructions on forming committees of management. [In a resolution, the board considers salaries for dispensary physicians adequate, ‘numbers of those who would have been entitled to medical relief having been admitted to the workhouse and the population of each district being greatly reduced by emigration’. A resolution of 13 Feb suggests that ‘in a few years there will be very little work for dispensary physicians to do’, noting ‘in the parish of Clonakilty alone it is believed 400 persons emigrated last summer’ ].
27 Feb 1852 Reports of the Dispensary Committees regarding accommodation and other arrangements.
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