Bandon Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/42
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4 Apr 1849 – 27 Mar 1850
Indexed. Inside the front cover is a table noting relieving officers’ districts, net annual value, and extent. Includes:
4 Apr 1849 Total inmates: 3289. Deaths: 43 [capacity: 3185] Doctor’s report and RC chaplain’s letter regarding overcrowded infirmaries.
18 Apr 1849 Resolved, that owing to the ‘ exhausted state ’ of union funds, the board do not feel ‘justified in incurring the expense of the large outfit required by the commissioners for paupers selected for em igration’ [to Australia]. PLC letter noting 215 deaths in the 5 weeks to 31 March and suggesting out door relief be considered. [Overcrowding and relief recurring subjects.] 25 Apr 1849Protest received ‘signed numerously b y the inhabitants of the town’ against premises let [for use as a cholera hospital . See 16 May and 30 May: Bandon Fever Hospital Committee agree to take in cholera patients].
2 May 1849 Total inmates: 4034 [previous week: 3760]. [30 May: Report]
16 May 1849 Letter read reporting first case of cholera in Bandon. [A table shows requirements of dispensary physicians for attending cholera cases.]
6 Jun 1849 Visiting committee report regarding arrangements for accommodating cholera patients and removing other inmates, especially children, from contact with the disease. [The medical officer reports 21 cases this week, and physicians report cases in several districts. The board resolves to seek Board of Health advice in the matter of physicians in the Clonakilty area having refused the terms offered for attending cholera cases]. 20 Jun 1849 Workhouse cholera cases: 53 (17 cured, 11 died); Overton Hospital cases: 26 (5 cured, 3 died); cholera shed cases: 107 (4 cured, 63 died). Also, two fatal cases reported in Ballinspittle Dispensary District. Resolution regarding assessing rates [for relief] in baronies in more than one union, the board fearing that unless an ‘equitable plan’ is adopted ‘great injustice’ will be done, as those unions [Skibbereen and Dunmanway] where ‘the larger part of the advances were spent’ are ‘now seeking to throw a most unfair proportion of the repayment on this by reducing their valuation’. Resolution seeking credit of £1500 or £2000, the amount of rate uncollected being nearly £3000, ove r half of which is owed ‘by three electoral divisions in the union the most distressed’. They plan to strike another rate after Harvest. 4 Jul 1849 ‘Total of cholera cases up to 3 July 1849 since first appearance of the disease’: Workhouse: 84 (died:25); Overton: 91 (died: 35) PLC letter stating they are not ready to declare the new union at Clonakilty. Medical officer’s report stating that having examined the dietary ‘I am fully persuaded that the cause of the mortality does not lie therein. The physical state of the people coming into the workhouse is the true cause... their system having no power of recuperation’ [in dysentery cases].
1 Aug 1849 Master’s report that he found the fever hospital ‘in an unbearably
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