Mallow Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/116
children reside with them in the workhouse during their holidays.
6 Jul 1917 LGB letter sanctioning the stated scales of rations for officers of the workhouse. Minutes of meeting of the house committee to consider the LGB inspector’s report as contained in a letter of 6 June 1917. 3 Aug 1917 LGB letter regarding a man who escaped from the idiot ward on 16 May last. A guardian responded ‘this man is now living among the farmers in Liscarroll and that he thinks he is now alright inasmuch as he is useful to them ’ . The Guardians consider no other action should be taken. Resolution passed calling on KB Williams, late landlord of Mrs Barrett, evicted tenant, to allow her to sell her interest in her former holding. 17 Aug 1917 Minutes of the Ladies’ Visiting Committee, which met on 25 June, making reference to the heavy duties of the night nurse, to an ashpit ‘emanating an abominable odour, injurious to the health of the children’, and to giving extra milk to old people in the infirm ward. The committee are invited ‘to attend at the kitchen and show the cook how to make proper and economic soup’. [See also 14 Sep and 26 Oct 1917] Application considered to send a child ‘who is idiotic’ to the Stewart Institute, Palmerstown, Chapelizod, Dublin. The board agreed to pay ‘the usual fee of £13 a year. The case is a very deserving one’. Children at nurse reports, including an LGB letter regarding a child who reported his nurse ill treated him. It is asked whether the nurse ‘is a suitable foster parent to have charge of the other workhouse child’. Under Medical Charities, an LGB letter was read sanctioning ‘the appointment of a lady doctor as temporary medical officer of the Buttevant Dispensary’. 31 Aug 1917 LGB letter forwarding the auditor’s report on the accounts of Mallow Union, making suggestions regarding the purchase of food and consumables, and noting errors and deficiencies in account keeping. 14 Sep 1917 Letter from the Naval and Military War Pensions Committee asking if there is space available for disabled soldiers. The board responds that there is no space at Mallow, but that ‘the workhouse buildings at Mitchelstown are al together empty’, and that there may be space at Millstreet. 28 Sep 1917 Resolution passed calling on ‘the government of all belligerent countries to note the inhuman treatment of the Irish political prisoners by the British government which professes to be fighting for the rights of small nationalities and demands that the gallant men be accorded the treatment of prisoners of war’.
12 October 1917 Notice of motion to seek a war bonus for the carpenter, tailor, shoemaker, and vanman ‘who are bearing the burden of all taxation’.
26 Oct 1917 LGB letter referring to a medical officer’s report regarding an attendant who forcibly struck a female inmate of the idiot ward, and stating that ‘this attendant must not be allowed to retain office any longer’.
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