Bantry Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/43
118.
4 Dec 1920 – 12 Apr 1922
Includes:
4 Dec 1920 Total inmates: 37. Out door relief: 79 persons.
29 Jan 1921 Total inmates: 36. Out door relief: 79 persons. [Numbers of inmates are not recorded again after this date until 31 Aug 1921. This may be partly owing to the removal to Bantry House, but seems to be largely owing to the master not maintaining the admission and discharge books. See 6 Jul 1921 below.] 2 Feb 1921 Clerk reports that auxiliary police came to Bantry House on 22 Dec and told him that his office and part of the house used as a hospital was required. Removal of patients and stock took place ‘in a drenching downpour of rain’. The auxiliaries left on 24 Dec. Master’s report stating that the union hospital was closed on 6 Nov 1920 and that a cheque for stock missing has been received from the officer in charge. The workhouse is now ‘in the entire occupation of the military’. LGB letter regarding ‘the proposal to board out certain Bantry workhouse inmates in the Skibbereen workhouse’. 6 Jul 1921 Copies of minutes of evidence heard by LGB inspectors at inquiries into ‘the circumstances connected with recent attempts made to destroy certain of the workhouse books and the theft of other documents relating to the business of the union’ and the manner in wh ich the master keeps records ‘and discharges generally the duties of his office’. The books were found in a watertank on the Bantry estate. The master claimed they were stolen, but admitted he had not been keeping them up to date and had been given the option by the board of resigning or facing an inquiry over this. The LGB found the master ‘is not a fit and proper person’ for his post. 31 Aug 1921 Resolved, that the board and Bantry Rural District Council ‘now completely sever our connection with the English Local Government Board and from hence forward altogether recognise the authority of Dail Eireann as the duly elected government of the Irish people’. 9 Nov 1921 Cork County Council circular regarding amalgamation of poor law unions, abolition of workhouses, and establishment of central homes and general and fever hospitals. The board expresses approval, stating ‘Bantry is an ideal selection for the places specified being most central and within easy reach of Schull and Castletown and the other places r eferred to in the area’. 21 Dec 1921 Resolution expressing ‘disapproval’ of the (Anglo -Irish) Treaty, and criticising local TD Sean Hayes for supporting it in the Dail, ‘committing his constituents as a whole to a policy which in our opinion is an unfair reflection on their qualities as Republicans’.
18 Jan 1922 Local Government Department order stating ‘that the premises occupied by the enemy forces shall on evacuation by them remain closed and
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