Mallow Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/116
100. 101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. 107. 108. 109.
Missing
21 Mar 1902 – 17 Apr 1903
Missing
2 Jun 1904 – 28 Apr 1905 12 May 1905 – 7 Jun 1906 22 Jun 1906 – 19 Jul 1907
Missing
11 Sep 1908 – 1 Oct 1909
Missing
9 Dec 1910 – 16 Jun 1911
110. – 119.
Missing
120.
11 May 1917 – 26 October 1917
Minutes of ordinary meetings are followed by financial and statistical minutes, and minutes of proceedings under the Medical Charities Acts, including periodic notice of children at nurse reports [some of which contain sensitive information and are subject to 100 year closure].
Includes:
11 May 1917 Tables, numbers of persons in the workhouse on 5 May 1917: 193; number of persons receiving outdoor relief: 230. Application received from Killmallock Board of Guardians for remuneration for treatment of patients from Mallow ‘whilst the workhouse was in occupation of the military’. [See 8 June below and minutes of 14 Sep] LGB letter referring to the number of defaulters under the Vaccination Act for the quarter ending 31 Mar 1917, totalling 260 in the union area. 26 May 1917 Resolution from the Mourneabbey branch of Sinn Fein read, amended, and passed, protesting against the action of ‘the mock peace preservers known as policemen who were the sole cause of provoking an attack on an unarmed and peaceful people in the town of Mallow on Tuesday 22 nd May 1917 and that we demand a full public inquiry into the conduct of the police on the occasion’. 8 Jun 1917 Matron submits a list of eleven orphaned and deserted children to be boarded out, ranging in age from 6 weeks to 11 years. The guardians note ‘that as the present maintenance allowance was too low, the people would not take the children’. LGB letter regarding the shortage of sugar, stating that they should apply to their 1915 supplier or forward correspondence to the Royal Commission on Sugar Supply. They also suggest sweetened condensed milk and golden syrup as substitutes. It is stated in reply ‘the guardians had no contractor for sugar in 1915 as the inmates were in the Millstreet Union then’ [owing to military occupation of Mallow workhouse. See 31 August: ‘the proportionate number of inmates as between Mallow and Millstreet was practically two thirds Mallow and one third Millstreet’ . See also 6 July and 3 August] Election of a new master recorded. [on departure and pension of old master, see also, e.g., 20 July]
22 Jun 1917 Caretaker of children and a nurse both permitted to have their
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