Mallow Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/116
Mallow Town, Ballinamona and Rahan, Kilavullen (for Monanimmy and Carrig), Taur/Ballyclough, Glounthane (for Kilshannig), Doneraile (for Clenor), Buttevant (for Caherduggan and Imphrick), and Churchtown (for Liscarroll). 28 Dec 1840 Letters from the Poor Law Commissioners and the Exchequer Bill Loan Commissioners regarding security on loan advances for providing the union workhouse. Particulars of payments to date forwarded by the board. 11 Jun 1841 Resolution expressing the boar d’s ‘conviction that the benevolent intention of the Poor Relief Act will... be impeded unless it is accompanied with a bill for the suppression of vagrancy with a view to remove the last traces of that moral pestilence as well as to afford the necessary protection to the rate payer from impositions’. 17 Sep 1841 PLC letter regarding justices in the union acting as ex-officio guardians; Workhouse master, matron, and porter appointed. 21 May 1842 Committee report on the building of the workhouse adopted, r eferring to ‘extravagant’ claims for works and ‘the defective state of the building’. The report includes resolutions , one of which addresses the PLC’s ‘very erroneous impression... as to many of the defects in the workhouse, preventing the admission of paupers, being ascribable to the late severe storm’. Another resolution refers to other workhouses nationally and calls for a ‘searching enquiry... as to the removal of the present PL Commissioners, should they be found (what we believe them to have been) incompetent or remiss in the execution of the trusts reposed in them’. 11 Jun 1842 Resolutions regarding taking possession of the workhouse, disputed accounts, ‘the very great distress prevailing in the district’, the ‘extravagant’ rate for some of the wor ks, and the interests of rate payers.
16 Jul 1842 Resolved, ‘that the workhouse be opened on Tuesday the 2 nd August 1842 for the reception of 100 paupers’.
2 Aug 1842 PLC informed that the dietary of the Bandon workhouse is to be adopted as outlined, ‘ch ildren under 9 years of age, aged and sick paupers dieted as the medical officer shall direct’. [See also 9 Sep 1842] Resolved, ‘the admission of paupers having been entered on, after a clear and long explanation by WJ Voules Esq, APLC, 16 paupers were adm itted’. 12 Aug 1842 Report of the Finance and Visiting Committee adopted, containing several strict resolutions, including ‘that the doctor be directed not to allow tea to any pauper except as a medicine and that he be particularly strict in his orders of admission to the hospital’. 26 Aug 1842 PLC letter refusing to permit the master’s children to reside with him in the workhouse, noting ‘the resident officers… have been dieted out of the workhouse stores to prevent their being exposed either to the temptation of misapplying the stores to their own use or to the suspicion of doing so…
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