Bandon Board of Guardians
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filthy state, and calculated to produce di sease’. Nurses fined. Cholera cases: Workhouse: none: Overton: 121 (60 cured, 46 died, 10 remaining). Dr Ormston reports 16 cases in the fever hospital this week, of whom 4 remain, and that he treated 3 cases in their own homes. 22 Aug 1849 Medical offic er’s report stating that he would be able to close the cholera hospital at Overton on the 25 th , and that Dr Ormston’s cholera hospital is to be closed on Saturday. [Total inmates: 2311 (deaths: 17)] Resolution directing relieving officers to conduct a census of the union so that paupers may be accurately charged according to the amended Poor Law Act. Resolved, to appoint committee to investigate all union expenditure. Resolution requesting an enquiry into cases of paupers being charged to Kinneigh ED despite having been discharged. [Later minutes: claims for other EDs and discrepancies in recording numbers of inmates. See note for 3 Oct]
12 Sep 1849 PLC letter regarding the emigration of 60 female orphans. 15 children discharged to their parents and others [a recurring item].
26 Sep 1849 Resolutions recommending names and arrangements for new electoral divisions to the Poor Law Boundary Commissioners.
3 Oct 1849 PLC letter regarding instalments due on loans from the Public Works Loan Commissioners and other loans. £3062 is currently owed. Resolved, to dismiss the master and assistant master, and to reprimand the clerk, on foot of Major Bolton’s report on anomalies regarding Kinneigh ED. Resolved, that the porter be dismissed, on foot of the mistress’s compl aint that she ‘found a female pauper in his room’.
10 Oct 1849 ‘Order altering union – dated 3 rd October 1849’. [ Areas given to Clonakilty and Dunmanway unions, and some added from Macroom]
14 Nov 1849 Resolutions regarding the difficulties caused by Clonakilty paupers remaining in Bandon, urging the building of a workhouse in Clonakilty, and arranging the registration of Clonakilty inmates. 12 Dec 1849 Reservation order limiting a quarter of accommodation in Bandon workhouse the use of Clonakilty union, that union to pay maintenance for its paupers and a quarter of establishment and other charges. 3 Jan 1850 Adjourned meeting of guardians of Bandon and Clonakilty unions pursuant to resolutions of 26 Dec 1849 regarding the re-registry of paupers in line with the altered unions and EDs. 13 Mar 1850 Total inmates: 2098 (Deaths: 2) Report of committee ‘appointed to consider the general working of the establishment’, recommending reductions in officers’ salaries but advising against ‘frequent alterations’. They also note ‘the present system of one pauper superintending the work of others, they find to be in some instances worse than useless’. They also recommend the growing of flax ‘to be dressed and worked up by the female paupers and every exertion being made to render the workhouse self- supporting’.
Cork City and County Archives 2011
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