Mallow workhouse Board of Guardians (BG116)

Mallow Board of Guardians

IE CCCA/BG/116

17 Sep 1847 Committee appointed ‘to consider in what manner additional workhouse accommodation can be best attained’.

8 Oct 1847 Circular from the Relief Commissioners informing the board that the Treasury has decided that all sums advanced for temporary fever hospitals ‘shall be considered entirely as a grant in aid of the rates’.

22 Oct 1847 Resolved, that the PLC be written to to clarify the situation regarding land taken from Mr Delacour for burial ground and fever hospital.

14 Feb 1848 Report by Mr Spratt, Guardian, regarding employment of paupers. He notes that many leave the workhouse soon after being put to work ‘proving that such persons entered the house not because they were really destitute but because they were idle and unwilling to work’. He recommends that land occupied by Michael Sheehan near the workhouse be taken and paupers put to work on it. 24 Mar 1848 Resolved, ‘the number of visitors to the pauper inmates having become a most serious nuisance ’, that the PLC be asked ‘to issue some stringent regulations on the subject’. [Total inmates this week: 1147]

31 Mar 1848 Response to PLC queries regarding inquest verdicts of death from ‘want and cold’ in two cases in the Mallow union district.

6. 7. 8. 9.

14 Apr 1848 – 30 Mar 1849 [*binding required]

7 Apr 1849 – 22 Mar 1850 [*bound, but requires strengthening]

29 Mar 1850 – 11 Apr 1851 7 Apr 1849 – 22 Mar 1850 22 Nov 1851 – 12 Jun 1852 19 Jun 1852 – 7 Jan 1853 14 Jan 1853 – 24 Jun 1853 1 Jul 1853 – 9 Dec 1853 16 Dec 1853 – 2 Jun 1854 9 Jun 1854 – 18 Nov 1854 25 Nov 1854 – 5 May 1855

10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.

Missing

16 Nov 1855 – 9 May 1856 16 May 1856 – 7 Nov 1856

20. – 30.

Missing

31. 32. 33.

16 May 1862 – 7 Nov 1862 [*some mild water damage and flaking at edges]

14 Nov 1862 – 1 May 1863

15 May 1863 – 5 Nov 1863 [*Damaged binding, many pages coming away]

Partly indexed. Ordinary minutes are followed by a supplemental sheet for minutes of proceedings under the Medical Charities Acts and Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Acts, 1848 and 1849.

Includes:

15 May 1863 Resolution read from the Cork District Lunatic Asylum, expressing readiness to receive ‘all dangerous and urgent cases of lunacy without their passing t hrough the County Gaol’, provided unions receive ‘all

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