Bantry Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/43
98.
15 Jan 1907 – 2 Jul 1907
Ordinary minutes are followed by supplemental pages for financial minutes and statistical minutes, and for proceedings under the Medical Charities Act, Vaccination Acts, and Dispensary Houses Act. Meetings are held fortnightly, although the abstract of accounts of relieving officers in the statistical minutes is completed weekly, beginning 5 Jan 1907. Enclosures: ‘Analysis of Drugs’ forms (under dispensary regulations), Bantry and Durrus Dispensaries, 30 Jan 1907, 3pp [see 12 Feb 1907]; Letter from Jeremi ah Wholehan asking the board ‘to take in my child into the union. I have no one to care him as my wife is after dying. I cannot take any care of him as I must try and support myself and cannot remain Inside with him. I am only living in lodgings now’. Undated, 1p; Letter from Eugene Harrington, 26 Feb 1907, asking the board to send him to the Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. He explains he was there are a paying patient ‘and was improving but I had no means to continue paying for myself and had to come home only half cured’. 1p [see 26 Feb 1907] Enclosures are inside the back cover.
Includes:
15 Jan 1907 Total inmates: 97. Out door relief: 197 persons. LGB letter requesting returns giving the name and description of inmates of unsound mind, and those ‘not of unsound mind, who were afflicted with epilepsy’. Minute, adoption of resolution of the Baltinglass board of guardians expr essing its dismay at ‘the action of the French government in its dealings with the Roman Catholic Church in that country’. 29 Jan 1907 Committee report stating that they see no objection to letting a piece of the workhouse ground to ED Storer ‘with the ob ject of facilitating industrial employment’. [A ‘Barytes mill’; see 12 Mar 1907 . Approval was rescinded on 26 Mar, in favour of a company ‘engaged in working scart mines’. ] 12 Feb 1907 Master’s report stating that two inmates who broke out, having been refused passes, were charged at Petty Sessions court and sentenced to one month and three weeks respectively. 26 Mar 1907 Letter from Rev O’Grady requesting permission t o remove a [Protestant] girl ‘the only child in the workhouse belonging to his communion, as he can get her into a good home in Dublin where she will be carefully taught and put out in life’. [See 9 Apr] Resolution of regret on the death of John O’Leary ‘one of Ireland’s noblest sons, who sacrificed his prospects and liberty in the service of his country’. Notice of tenders accepted for the half year to 30 September next.
23 Apr 1907 Resolution of sympathy on the death of Canon Reid, PP, ‘“guide, philosopher and friend” in temporal as well as spiritual matters’. Remainder of
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