Bantry workhouse Board of Guardians (BG43)

Bantry Board of Guardians

IE CCCA/BG/43

17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43.

20 Apr 1859 – 18 Apr 1860 25 Apr 1860 – 22 May 1861 29 May 1861 – 11 Jun 1862 18 Jun 1862 – 17 Jun 1863 24 Jun 1863 – 17 Dec 1863 23 Dec 1863 – 7 Dec 1864 14 Dec 1864 – 29 Nov 1865 6 Dec 1865 – 28 Nov 1866

Missing

4 Dec 1867 – 2 Dec 1868

Missing [See BG/43/AA/4 below]

8 Dec 1869 – 30 Nov 1870 7 Dec 1870 – 29 Nov 1871 6 Dec 1871 – 27 Nov 1872 4 Dec 1872 – 26 Nov 1873 3 Dec 1873 – 28 Oct 1874 4 Nov 1874 – 28 Apr 1875 5 May 1875 – 27 Oct 1875 3 Nov 1875 – 26 Apr 1876 3 May 1876 – 25 Oct 1876 1 Nov 1876 – 25 Apr 1877 2 May 1877 – 24 Oct 1877 31 Oct 1877 – 24 Apr 1878 1 May 1878 – 23 Oct 1878 30 Oct 1878 – 23 Apr 1879 30 Apr 1879 – 22 Oct 1879 29 Oct 1879 – 14 April 1880

Ordinary minutes are followed by supplemental sheets for proceedings under the Medical Charities Act and proceedings of the board as a Sanitary Authority. [*The volume’s binding is a little damaged, with some water damage to pages nearest the front, but not affecting minutes]. *Dispensary committees: Bantry, Glengarriff, Durrus and Kilcrohane, Kealkil,

Includes:

29 Oct 1879 Total inmates: 134. Out door relief: 3 persons. Master reports that the children were taken out for exercise once this week. [a recurring item in master’s reports] 19 Nov 1879 LGB letter regarding their inspectors’ reports ‘on the cond ition and prospects of the poor in Ireland, from which they learn that there will probably be an unusual amount of distress in parts of the country this winter’. They ask the board to make appropriate arrangements, both in the workhouse and for outdoor relief ‘should the condition of the poorer classes render it necessary to afford relief out of the workhouse more freely than at present’. 26 Nov 1879 Letter from Rev William O’Grady asking to be appointed protestant chaplain, noting ‘there are not many of my people at present in the house, though I believe most of the officials belong to the Church of Ireland, but there may at any time be more’. [See also 31 Dec 1879]

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