Bantry Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/43
contractor regarding mon ey owed since 1920 ‘for the removal of inmates from Bantry union workhouse to Bantry House as well as making necessary alterations’. 2 May 1923 Medical officer’s report beginning ‘our district and fever hospitals were burned last August. Their destruction was a great loss to the people of the union’, especially as malignant and infection cases of disease are debarred from ‘our present temporary hospital’. He urges ‘the early rest oration of our hospitals’. [See also 16 Aug and 8 Nov 1922 and 23 Jan 1924 below] 25 Jul 1923 Letter from the Master, Clonakilty workhouse, regarding an inmate who has absconded and is thought to be heading for ‘his native home’ [i.e., Bantry]. He adds ‘at the moment five of your inmates continue on here’. Medical officer’s report referring to the ‘continued spread of smallpox in parts of England’ and stressing ‘the great necessity’ of having children vaccinated. 5 Sep 1923 Total inmates in the hospital: 26. Out door relief: 93 persons. Matron’s report stating that ‘owing to the removal of the children to industrial schools and... the small numbers at present in the hospital’, the services of the children’s caretaker and the seamstress are no longer requi red. Also present is an LG Dept letter noting that the school teacher is no longer required. [See 25 Jul 1923] 19 Sep 1923 Total inmates in hospital: 27. Minute, in response to LG Dept circular regarding workhouses occupied by British troops, stating that claims totalling £466 5s 11d have been lodged with the ministry, and that there are no further claims. [See 25 Jul 1923] Resolution inviting tenders for the supply of bread, dairy, and meat, ‘to be lodged in the tender box, board room, Bantry House’.
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3 Oct 1923 – 30 Apr 1924
The page which usually precedes minutes, containing returns of inmates, out door relief statistics, and attendance details, has been removed or left incomplete for most of the minutes in the present volume. Where proceedings under the Medical Charities Acts are recorded, attendance of guardians is noted, and a page noting the date and attendance details has been inserted or completed before many of the ordinary minutes present.
Includes:
31 Oct 1923 Minute, seeking LG Dept guidance in the case of the transfer of a child to Cork workhouse from Cork mental hospital, where his mother is a patient, the board not being legally empowered to defray costs. They note that their present alternatives are ‘to have the child sent back to be brought up in the asylum, or to have the father leave his employment as a labourer, and go home to starve with his two children’. Minute, LG Dept reply sought regarding supplying an inmate with an artificial limb, ‘as the guardians are sending out all pati ents where possible owing to want of accommodation’.
23 Jan 1924 Medical officer’s report recommending the erection of a district
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