Bantry Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/43
List of Items and Descriptions
1. Minute Books
BG/43/A
Bantry Board of Guardians Minute Books
Scope and Content: A record of meetings and decisions made by the board of guardians in administering the workhouse and poor relief generally. At meetings, administrative, financial, rates, and medical books were examined, officers’ reports and committee findings heard, correspondence read and considered, and applications for admission decided on. Matters arising with regard to the workhouse, staff, provisions, bills, rate collection, the Poor Law Commissioners/Local Government Board, and other issues, were also discussed. The minutes also include weekly statistics of admissions, discharges, and deaths in the workhouse, and of outdoor relief. Gaps are indicated where they occur.
Date : 20 Oct 1846 – 30 Apr 1924 (Gaps)
Level : Series
Extent : 107 volumes
1. 2.
Missing [See BG/43/AA/1 below]
20 Oct 1846 – 19 Oct 1847
Includes:
20 Oct 1846 Inmates: 403 [accommodation available for 600 persons]
27 Oct 1846 Schoolmistress appointed, the inspector of district schools under the National Board of Education in attendance.
3 Nov 1846 M aster’s report stating ‘the paupers got no breakfast on Friday the 30 th ultimo as no oatmeal or Indian meal could be had ’ . He gave them extra bread. He also recommends that molasses be substituted for milk for healthy inmates. [See also 10 Nov] Medical officer’s report recommending that the fever hospital be prepared for reception of patients as there is fever in the locality ‘and there is every probability that it will spread very extensively this season in consequence of the great distress existing among the poorer classes and be very disastrous in its consequences’. Resolved, that Indian meal be purchased in Cork ‘or wherever they may be able to procure it from’, and that a steel mill be purchased ‘to be worked by the paupers grinding wheat for the establishment’. Clerk’s insertion noting that no meeting was held on 17 Nov as most g uardians attended the ‘special presentment sessions convened by the Lord Lieutenant for the purpose of procuring employment for the labouring class
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