BG/65
IE CCCA/BG/65 Clonakilty Board of Guardians
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7 Jan 1881 – 30 Dec 1881
Partially indexed (ma inly sanitary matters indexed under ‘S’). Ordinary minutes are followed by supplemental sheets for proceedings under the Medical Charities Acts and as a Rural Sanitary Authority. Includes: 7 Jan 1881 Total inmates: 262. Out door relief: 8 persons. List of Works recommended by the board, for the Extraordinary Baronial Sessions for the Barony of Ibane and Barryroe. [The ‘relief works’ referred to below (21 Jan). Other works submitted at later meetings, eg, 11 Mar] 21 Jan 1881 ‘A very large body of labourers assembled in the visiting hall... in order that they might apply to the guardians for either work or relief... They stated they and their families were starving and famishing from the severity of the weather. The guardians sympathised with them and regretted that they were unable to afford them out door relief and promised to do all in their power to have the relief works commenced’. 28 Jan 1881Sealed order authorising the board to administer relief in food and fuel to able-bodied men with their families until 12 Feb next [in response to the board’s resolution on the foregoing]. Sealed order dated 20 January 1881 ‘declaring the proportions of the sum of £2000, expended in providing the intercepting hospital at Queenstown payable by each of the Riparian Nuisance Districts abutting on the Port of Cork’. [See also, eg, 7 Jan]
4 Mar 1881 Total inmates: 274. Out door relief: 136 persons.
1 Apr 1881 List of approved payments includes maintenance of inmate at St Mary’s Blind Asylum. Committees of Management elected for Dispensary Districts. [Wardens appointed on 22 Apr.] 8 Apr 1881 LGB letter referring to the report of their inspector which states that ‘cleanliness is now fairly observed’ but noting certain points, including ‘that the children are not regularly taken out for exercise and drawing attention of the visiting committee to their duties’. [The board replied in a long resolution of 22 Apr. They state ‘we have for a long time been aware of the inability of the master to keep order among and control a certain class of inmates… as may be seen by the frequent prosecutions before magistrates and the corrections as entered in his report and punishment book and we are surprised the LGB inspector has not before taken notice of it’. Regarding industrial training t hey note ‘the boys are too young to be apprenticed to any trade’ and so they are kept at school ‘and moreover they are frequently taken out of the house by farmers as soon as they are able to work’.] 29 Apr 1881 Master’s report and medical officer’s repor t claiming that the hospital nurse was under the influence of drink (the latter complaint confirmed by the chaplain). The board asks the LGB to send an inspector. [See also 13 May]
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