Mallow Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/116
63. 64.
23 May 1879 – 28 Nov 1879 5 Dec 1879 – 4 Jun 1880
65. – 69.
Missing
70. 71.
24 Aug 1883 – 29 Feb 1884 7 Mar 1884 – 12 Sep 1884
72. – 76.
Missing
77. 78. 79.
13 May 1887 – 18 Nov 1887
Missing
15 Jun 1888 – 4 Jan 1889
Ordinary minutes are followed by supplemental sheets for minutes of proceedings under the Medical Charities and Public Health Acts, including proceedings of the board as a rural sanitary authority, and for proceedings as a rural sanitary authority under the Labourers (Ireland) Acts, 1883, 1885, 1886.
Includes:
15 Jun 1888 Extract read from the punishment book regarding ‘disorderly’ and ‘annoying’ conduct, including playing football, by several inmates. [See also, e.g., 31 Aug 1888] 29 Jun 1888 Minutes of meeting of the Union’s Public Health Committee. Topics discussed included the new cemetery, Chapel Lane sewerage, and the milk factory.
20 Jul 1888 Resolution of sympathy on the death of Sir Denham Jephson Norreys, a long-serving board member.
28 Jul 1888 Printed resolution that an improvement scheme ought to be made under the Labourers Acts for the Electoral Divisions of Kilmaclenine and Templemary, existing accommodation for agricultural labourers and their families having been found ‘unfit for human habitation’. [See also 22 &29 Jun 1888]; Correspondence between the clerk of the union and the LGB auditor regarding cleansing and scavenging of the town of Mallow, which the board has taken over from the Town Commissioners. 17 Aug 1888 Pursuant to notice, all children at nurse in the union, with three exceptions, were inspected at the workhouse by the visiting committee, which ‘reported favourably of them’. 7 Sep 1888 Relieving officer’s report of two women, one living in a ‘car - shed’, the other ‘in a miserable room without any friend to see after her’, bo th of whom ‘decline to come to the workhouse’. 14 Sep 1888 Letter from Philip McGovern, Glangevlin, Co Cavan, regarding his treatment of a boy from Shanballymore bitten by a dog [McGovern evidently treated patients bitten by suspected rabid dogs for various unions].
21 Sep 1888 Matron’s letter stating that an inmate reported to her that another inmate attempted to murder him, and that she allowed him ‘out on pass for
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