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IE CCCA/BG/65 Clonakilty Board of Guardians
55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66.
2 June 1903 – 20 May 1904 2 June 1904 – 2 June 1905 7 June 1905 – 11 May 1906 25 May 1906 – 26 Apr 1907 10 May 1907 – 24 Apr 1908 8 May 1908 – 7 June 1909 18 June 1909 – 3 June 1910 6 June 1910 – 16 June 1911 30 June 1911 – 5 June 1912 14 June 1912 – 5 June 1913 13 June 1913 – 26 June 1914 10 July 1914 – 11 June 1915
The volume is indexed. The minutes are generally in typescript, and ordinary minutes are followed by a supplemental sheet for proceedings under the Medical Charities Acts. A form ‘Record of Attendance an d Voting of Guardians’ precedes each set of minutes. Newscuttings containing reports of meetings are inserted loose into many of the minutes. Includes: 10 Jul 1914 Total inmates: 135. Out door relief: 153 persons. Master’s report stating that the fever hospital is now closed, and reporting on other matters, including two insane inmates and exercise for children. [Fever hospital opened and closed and staffed as and if required]. Letter from TW Russell MP regarding the board’s resolution ‘respecting the orders in force restricting the movement of cattle in Ireland’. Letter from Archdeacon McFetridge resigning as one of the workhouse chaplains [to be replaced by his successor as rector of Kilgarriff]. Child boarded out on terms of 12 shillings a month with an allowance of £1 a year for clothing [boarded out children a recurring item in most minutes]. 7 Aug 1914 Visiting Committee’s report, expressing pleasure t hat plates were provided for all inmates and recommending that knives and forks also be provided. They refrain from commenting on the master’s request for a paid attendant until a list of females in the house is supplied. The master’s return showed that of 15 women, 8 were infirm and 3 lunatics, leaving 4 ‘available for the washing, cleaning, cooking & c of the establishment’. There are also 5 ‘pauper assistants’ employed in the hospital under the ‘Nun Nurses’. Resolved, ‘that the question of building Rosscarbery Dispensary and Residence be adjourned for six months’ [See 24 Jul when matter was debated, a notice of motion claiming ‘consent to build a dispensary was obta ined by the misrepresentation of a Ross guardian’. See also, eg, 10 Oct 1919.]
21 Aug 1914 Resolution adjourning meeting in memory of Pope Pius X.
4 Sep 1914 LGB circulars regarding ‘relief of distress consequent on the war’. [See also 27 Nov, circular r egarding dependants of ‘interned aliens’.]
18 Sep 1914 LGB letter sanctioning a contribution of £3 to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Letter from Post Office Telephones asking ‘whether in the event of the telephone service being extended to Clonakilty the guardians would wish to
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