Mallow Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/116
harmless lunatics’. It is stated that the arrangement ‘will lighten the pressu re on this asylum, now so crowded, and place the harmless lunatics in the proper place for them’. The board, in response, pr otests against the ‘principle... that the workhouse is the proper place for harmless lunatics’, but agrees to provide for them until additional accommodation be provided at the asylum. 12 Jun 1863 Letter from the Education Office forwarding an extract from the report of its inspector on the union national school. [See also 30 October] Correspondence, recorded on the supplemental sheet, regarding the power of the management committee of Rahan Dispensary District to appoint medical officers and substitutes and to fix their remuneration. [a recurring matter] 11 Jul 1863 Master’s report stating that he attended Kanturk quarter sessions with five women, mothers of illegitimate children in the workhouse, and that decrees were obtained against four of the putative fathers. [See also 2 Oct] Schedule of rates for each electoral division agreed, the aggregate to realize £5792 10s 3d for the year ending 29 Sep 1864. 24 Jul 1863 Resolved, to write to Fermoy union regarding the cost of erecting the Turkish bath in Ferm oy workhouse, the bath understood to be ‘a very effectual curative agent under the management of the medical officer there’. 31 Jul 1863 Extract from the punishment book read, regarding a female inmate given three hours in the refractory ward ‘for creatin g noise in the dining hall and assaulting the schoolmaster’. She is also to be prosecuted. 14 Aug 1863 Memorandum regarding the master’s refusal to admit a lunatic forwarded from Cork workhouse having been removed by warrant from Scotland. It is noted ‘th is case of removal of a lunatic pauper from England or Scotland is the first which has occurred as regards the Mallow Union’. 2 Oct 1863 Resolved, that a room in the female probationary ward be appropriated for use as an office for the registry of births and deaths pursuant to the provisions of new legislation. 16 Oct 1863 Letter from the Management Committee, Mallow Dispensary District, applying for an increase of salary for the medical officer, noting that the number of cases attended in the year previous to his appointment was 626 and that in the year to October 1862 he attended 1762 cases. [See also 23 October, a letter from some ratepayers protesting against an increase in the salary of the medical officer of Ballyclough Dispensary District]
34. 35. 36. 37. 38.
Missing
13 May 1864 – 4 Nov 1864 11 Nov 1864 – 5 May 1865
Missing
17 Nov 1865 – 4 May 1866
39. – 40.
Missing
41.
10 May 1867 – 1 May 1868
42. – 56.
Missing
57.
11 Feb 1876 – 18 Aug 1876
58. – 62.
Missing
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