Kanturk Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/98
‘there is at present an epidemic of influenza in the workhouse’ . He comments on the male and female general hospitals, the child ren’s ward, and sick staff.
3 Jan 1900 ‘Mr WN Leader DL on behalf of the Ladies’ Visiting Committee was on application given permission to supply the children and blind inmates with a feast within a fortnight’. [See also 17 Jan 1900: Kanturk Dramatic Corp s given permission ‘to give an entertainment to the inmates’]
20 Jan 1900 LGB letter regarding the report by Colonel Kirkwood, LG Inspector, ‘which is of a generally satisfactory character’.
14 Mar 1900 Master’s report noting that an inquest into the dea th of an infant by its mother in the bed made a finding of ‘accidental suffocation’.
11 Apr 1900 Master’s report referring to the escape of an inmate from the idiot ward, who was found ‘at his father’s house in bed and refused to come back to the House’; election of attendant in the male general hospital. 23 May 1900 Master’s report noting the escape over the wall of a 14 year old boy ‘shortly after his admission taking with him the workhouse clothes’. He has since been arrested and is awaiting trial.
84. 85.
Missing
3 Jul 1901 – 21 May 1902
86.-89.
Missing
90.
10 Jan 1906 – 6 Mar 1907
91.-97.
Missing
98. 99.
4 Nov 1914 – 24 Jan 1917
Missing
100.
21 May 1919 – 4 May 1921
Minutes of meetings are preceded by statistical minutes and financial minutes, and are followed by minutes of proceedings under the Medical Charities Acts. Minutes are typed throughout the volume. Some agenda papers also present.
Includes:
2 October 1920 Resolved, ‘that the minutes of proceedings of the Board of Guardians be not sent to the Local Government Board from this date forward, and furthermore that no further communication whatsoever be held with the Local Government Board’. [Subsequent minutes are sent to, and sanctions received from, Dail Eireann and, later, the Department of Local Government of the Irish Free State]. 23 Feb 1921 Master’s report, noting ‘Dr Collins did not attend the hospital on the 11 th instant owing to his not being able to get away from the military in time. A party of military, under the command of an officer, gained access to the workhouse at 11 o’clock pm, on the night of the 17 th instant by scaling the surrounding wall. They searched my apartments also the male side of the building and then left’.
Cork City and County Archives 2011
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