Kanturk Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/98
BG/98/AJ
Newmarket Dispensary District Minute Book Scope and Content:
Minutes of meetings of the committee of management of the Newmarket Dispensary District. Acting under the supervision of the board of guardians, the committee was responsible for district dispensary services and oversaw district medical officers, midwives, and relieving officers. The committee met roughly once a month at th e dispensary house. Quarterly, Officers’, and other reports were submitted to the board of guardians. Also submitted were resolutions passed, requisitions for medicines and other requirements, and matters arising requiring the board’s sanction (e.g. premis es, staff, individual relief cases). The minutes recorded in the present volume are brief and rather rough.
Date : 31 Mar 1852 – 14 Nov 1892
Level : Item
Extent : 1 vol
Includes:
31 Mar 1852 Resolved, ‘that the ordinary days each week on which the medical officer shall attend at the dispensary be Mondays and Fridays between the hours of 10 and 12am, and at the depot, Rockchapel, on Saturday between the hours of 12 and 1 o’clock in the afternoon’. 7 Sep 1858 Resolved, that the district be divided into 4 vaccination districts: Newmarket, Meelin, Meentina, and Rockchapel stations, the medical officer to attend these stations in the months of June and October.
2 Jun 1872 Note of medical officer’s report of vaccination, showing 1581 successful cases.
4 Jun 1873 Newscutting, advertisement for apothecary for the district.
18 Sep 1877 Letter of resignation of Dr Donaldson, medical officer, after thirty two years’ service [newscutting advertising the vacant post present]
7 Jun 1892 Deputation received stressin g ‘the advisability of having the sanitary state of the town [ie, Newmarket] improved by the introduction of a better supply of water’.
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