Bandon workhouse Board of Guardians (BG42)

Bandon Board of Guardians

IE CCCA/BG/42

98.

18 Apr 1914 – 24 Oct 1914

Indexed. Includes:

18 Apr 1914 Total inmates: 150. Out door relief cases: 268.

9 May 1914 LGB letter requesting ‘strict compliance’ with the vaccination acts in the case of defaulters (in each Dispensary District: Bandon: 26; Innishannon: 26; Kilbrittain: 4; Murragh: 18; Templemartin: 25).

23 May 1914 LGB letters regarding temporary employments in the workhouse; analyses of dispensary drugs forms inserted. [Recurring items].

20 Jun 1914 New workhouse master appointed by election [see later minutes]; Wardens elected to the electoral divisions of each Dispensary District.

4 Jul 1914 M aster’s and Relieving Officer’s reports of boarded out orphans having returned to the workhouse. [See also 1 Aug] Extract from auditor’s report, including the statement ‘closer supervision over the expenditure on outdoor relief is necessary, the figures show a decided upward t endency’. [274 out door relief cases this week] Letter from the medical officer, Templemartin, explaining ‘the exorbitancy of the medical and surgical appliances lists’ recently submitted. 15 Aug 1914 LGB circular regarding the cabinet committee set up to advise on ‘any distress that may arise in consequence of the War’, requesting that representative local committees be formed ‘to consider the needs of the localities and coordinate the distribution of such relief as may be required’.

29 Aug 1914 Meeting adjourned to mark the death of Pope Pius X.

12 Sep 1914 Letter from Irish National Volunteers, Bandon Branch, applying for the use of a room in Bandon Dispensary ‘during the coming winter for drilling and other purposes’. Granted, subject to LGB sanction. 26 Sep 1914 Letter from a Templemartin dispensary patient complaining that the doctor charged him twice for tending an injury and subsequently refused to accept a relieving officer’s ticket for dressing it again.

24 Oct 1914 Letter from the Sisters of Charity stating that they are opening a home for crippled boys next spring, and inviting applications.

99.

31 Oct 1914 – 8 May 1915 15 May 1915 – 20 Nov 1915 27 Nov 1915 – 3 Jun 1916 9 Jun 1916 – 16 Dec 1916 23 Dec 1916 – 14 Jul 1917 21 Jul 1917 – 9 Feb 1918 16 Feb 1918 – 7 Sep 1918

100. 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. 107.

Missing

12 Apr 1919 – 1 Nov 1919

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