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IE CCCA/BG/65 Clonakilty Board of Guardians
of premises were occupied and are now unoccupied, and that inmates occupy the workhouse pending the County Council and Dail decision on closure.
14 Apr 1922 Letter from Parish Court Clonakilty regarding an application to have four children, inmates, ‘found wandering on the public road’, committed to an industrial school. The board consider they should remain at the workhouse until the scheme for abolition, which ‘proposes to deal with children of unmarried mothers’, is approved. 12 May 1922 LG Dept letter regarding unsatisfactory school attendance by boarded out children. The board respond noting the prevalence of diphtheria, measles, and influenza, and resultant school closures. 23 Jun 1922 Total inmates: 113. Out door relief: 171 persons. Letter from Skibbereen Union asking whether some aged and infirm inmates may be admitted. The clerk responds that there is ‘ample accommodation’ but suggests waiting until the home committee of Cork County Council has met.
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Partially indexed. Includes:
11 Aug 1922 Total inmates: 132. Out door relief: 168 persons. Master’s report stating that seven inmates from Bantry Union and five from Bandon Union have been admitted since the last meeting. The Clerk is to enquire whether Bandon Union, which ‘is now practically closed’, is prepared to hand over clothing and bedding. 25 Aug 1922 Resolution informing the Local Government Department that ‘although the Home in the West of the County of Cork has been established at Clonakilty, the Board of Guardians, at the request of the Home Committee, will continue to function until 30 th September and in the meantime receive such inmates as may be transferred to the Home by Unions comprising the area to be served by the Home’. They add that 34 inmates have been received to date and ask about maintenance and other charges. [See also 12 Jan 1923, resolution noting that transferring unions have not contributed maintenance] Resolution deploring the death of Michael Collins ‘a brave and fearless leader, in the moment of victory, when he had gained for his country the freedom for which she had struggled during the past 700 years’. 8 Dec 1922 Resolved, that the County Coun cil’s attention be drawn to the union’s debt of £2377 and that it ‘cannot continue to function unless money is supplied’. Decision, that an illegitimate child be boarded out to enable her mother, an inmate, to go into service. [See 9 Feb 1923: chaplain expresses disapproval] 9 Feb 1923 LG Dept circular regarding the ‘alarming’ growth in expenditure on home help, which threatens ‘the economic existence of the ratepayers’. Attention is drawn to the provisions of the Poor Law Acts. [See, eg, 9 Mar]
23 Mar 1923 Report of Medical Officer, Clonakilty District, stating that on 6 Mar the dispensary (old fever hospital) was taken over by National Troops,
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