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class not so likely to suffer from confinement as the children who last year formed the majority of the inmates and suffered from the then prevailing epidemic’. [Total inmates this week: 1167] 13 Apr 1848 Resolved, that the Board ‘gladly avails’ of the offer by the Commissioners of Colonial Lands and will pay for the voyage to Plymouth ‘of such orphans as shall be selected by the proper officer’, the orphans to be between 14 and 18 years’ old. [Emigration t o Australia. See also 18 May 1848 and 29 Mar 1849] 3 Aug 1848 Resolved, to inform the PLC of ‘the sudden and rapid spread of disease in the potato crop’, which is of an ‘alarming’ character and has affected ‘ every field ’ . [See also 24 Aug 1848, referring to ‘the calamitous prospects of the country’ and to the ‘bad appearance’ of the wheat crop, and requesting that repayment of government loans be suspended] 26 Oct 1848 Resolved, in the context of the PLC’s recommendation that the Roman Catholic chaplain’s salary be increased, ‘that we object to the principle that the salary of any officer… should fluctuate with the number of paupers’. 30 Nov 1848 Resolutions regarding a rebate for voluntary rates payment, reduction of the number of relieving officers, and appointment of a committee to report on ‘the chief defects of the present Poor Law’. 18 Jan 1849 Resolved, in reply to PLC order, to inform them that the brewery ward is being altered to take 200 more paupers, and that the dockyard stores, taken at a yearly rent, will hold 600 more. [See also 8 Feb and 8 Mar 1849. Total inmates this week: 1814]
1 Feb 1849 Resolved, that the Sisters of Mercy be admitted into the workhouse and auxiliary workhouses to provide religious instruction.
1 Mar 1849 Notice of note ‘enquiring as to what course or process of manufacture of flax is intended to be carried on in this workhouse’.
19 Apr 1849 Resolved, that the PLC be asked not to insist on repayment of government loans at present, as it is found ‘that destitution is rapidly increasing, the cholera in our neighbourhood, and the ratepayers totally unable to bear the imposition of a new rate till after the harvest’.
7 Jun 1849 Resolved, that a new valuator be advertised for ‘cholera having deprived us of our revisor (M r DL Howe)’.
26 Jul 1849 Resolved, in response to a Central Board of Health letter, to state that relieving officers ‘are fully authorised… to procure coffins and provide for the speedy interment of all persons dying of cholera… and that a ward of the hospital is still open for the reception patients afflicted with this epidemic’.
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2 Aug 1849 – 22 May 1850
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