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IE CCCA/BG/65 Clonakilty Board of Guardians
67. 68. 69. 70.
25 June 1915 – 9 June 1916 23 June 1916 – 28 Sept 1917 12 Oct 1917 – 22 Nov 1918 6 Dec 1918 – 23 Jan 1920
The volume is indexed. A record of attendance precedes each set of minutes. A supplemental sheet for proceedings under the Medical Charities Act follows ordinary minutes. Newscuttings containing reports of proceedings inserted, loose and pasted in, into many of the minutes. Includes: 6 Dec 1918 Total inmates: 125. Out door relief: 168 persons. Special meeting held to consider notification from military authorities that they intend to take over the men ’s building at the workhouse to accommodate 80 to 90 Yorkshire Yeomanry – C Company. The board voted 7 to 5 against granting permission and suggested the military use the vacant Dispensary. Captain Shaw stated that in the meantime ‘he would be obliged to take possession of the men’s building’. [See, eg, 13 Dec, especially newscutting]
3 Jan 1919 Resolved, to adopt an estimate of £6820 for the coming year [an increase of £2154 since the war commenced (newscutting). See 2 Jan 1920].
14 Feb 1919 Master’s report stating that a case of diphtheria was admitted to the fever hospital. [See also newscutting referring to the expense of hiring attendants for a single case, and to whooping cough cases in Timoleague. JP Collins promises to raise the diphtheria case with the Town Council, it being thought to have originated in the town]. 28 Feb 1919 Master’s report stating that the military have occupied the boys’ dormitory and schoolroom. [See newscutting, in which Chairman Miss Minnie M McCarthy protests ‘as a Catholic’ against the boys sleeping in a room adjacent to that in which the girls sleep. She also objected to allowing the military to use a plot of ground for technical instruction (‘I propose we give nothing at all belonging to this place to the military’) but the board granted permission, the chairman dissenting, calling them ‘a pack of cowards’]. 8 Mar 1919 Master’s report stating that 38 Influenza cases from Timoleague District were admitted to the hospital. A telegram is to be sent to the LGB seeking a second doctor or the use of a motor car for the district medical officer ‘urgent, many lives in danger’. [28 Mar: death of workhouse doctor] 11 Apr 1919 Visiting committee report referring to the work of the hospital nuns ‘during this terrible epidemic of Influenza’, the dietary of 15 old infirm men, the provisions store, the school children, and the sch oolmaster’s rooms. LGB circular withdrawing the wartime prohibition on the permanent filling of vacancies in the Poor Law Medical Service. 25 Apr 1919 Resolution urging that a bonus be granted to Nurse O’Neill, if not extra remuneration, for her work duri ng the ‘formidable’ Influenza epidemic, noting the impossibility of securing other nurses and the untimely death of the medical officer, and expressing the view that the LGB’s
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