Bandon Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/42
108. 109.
8 Nov 1919 – 5 Jun 1920 12 Jun 1920 – 25 Sep 1920
Partially indexed. A ‘Record of Attendance & Voting ’ form precedes ordinary minutes. Supplemental sheets are present for proceedings under the Medical Charities Acts and proceedings in relation to the boarding out or hiring out of children under the Infant Life Protection Act. Includes: 19 Jun 1920 Total inmates: 95. Out door relief cases: 257 Record of persons appointed wardens for each electoral division of each Dispensary District. Bill received from Ratharoon School for school requisites supplied to a boarded out child. 3 Jul 1920 LGB letter referring to the District Inspector’s repo rt on the workhouse school, which notes only three children are on the rolls. Resolution expressing ‘abhorrence’ at the sentencing of James L arkin, General Secretary of the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union, to 5 to 10 years’ imprisonment in New York. Letter from the medical officer, Bandon, ‘on behalf of the medical profession’, demanding stated scale of fees for medical assistance. Letter from Rev AJ Roberts stating that the select vestry are willing to let two rooms under Ballinadee School for a dispensary depot. 31 Jul 1920 Master’s report stating that a ‘party of military’ visited the house on the night of 22 Jun ‘and having found nothing incriminating they took their departure’. LGB circular referring to ‘certain local authorities in Ireland repudiating the authority of the Imperial Parliament’ and pointing out that no loans or grants will be made to any authority not ‘prepared to conform to the rules and orders of the LG Board as heretofore’. [See 14 Aug: ‘It was ordered that the letter be placed in the waste-paper- basket’.] 28 Aug 1920 Letter from WT Cosgrave requesting that a conciliation board on matters arising between employers and employed by appointed. Letter from the Department of Labour, Dail Eireann, request ing the board ‘to do their utmost to procure suitable work for men who have resigned from the RIC’. Letter from the inmates requesting extra butter and potatoes per day. 11 Sep 1920 Resolution of the board and Bandon RDC adjourning their meeting ‘as a protest against the action of the English Government in murdering our fellow countrymen in Irish and English prisons. A further resolution extends sympathy ‘to our colleague Mr Ml Fitzgerald on the death of his son Leut Timothy Fitzgerald who offered up his young life for the cause of Ireland’.
25 Sep 1920 Resolved, ‘that Mr Ellis [LGB auditor] be not allowed audit the books of the union’. [See also, eg, 18 Dec 1920]
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