Kanturk Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/98
List of Items and Descriptions
BG/98/A
Kanturk Board of Guardian Minute Books
Scope and Content: A record of meetings and decisions made by the board of guardians in administering the workhouse and poor relief generally. At meetings, administrative, financial, rates, and medical books were examined, officers’ reports and committee findings heard, correspondence read and considered, and applications for admission decided on. Matters arising with regard to the workhouse, staff, provisions, bills, rate collection, the Poor Law Commissioners/Local Government Board, and other issues, were also discussed. The minutes also include weekly statistics of admissions, discharges, and deaths in the workhouse, and of outdoor relief. There are many gaps in the series, with no volumes present before that beginning 25 Feb 1858, although the board held its first meeting on 27 Feb 1840. Gaps occur throughout the series, as indicated in the item list below.
Date : 25 Feb 1858 – 18 April 1924 [Gaps]
Level : Series
Extent : 26 volumes
1.
25 Feb 1858 – 19 Aug 1858
Supplemental sheets for proceedings under the Medical Charities Acts follow ordinary minutes. The ‘State of the Workhouse’ statistical tables at the start of each set of minutes include a note of ophth almia cases and ‘febrile cases’ , both in treatment and convalescent (in the ‘Observations’ field).
Includes:
25 Feb 1858 Medical Officer’s report noting one death from consumption, one chronic ophthalmia case admitted, and three births, all to unmarried parents; ordered, ‘the medical officer having consented to the appropriation of a yard in the ophthalmia hospital with the small yard to the rere, for the use of females of immoral character, the master of the workhouse was directed to carry out the arrangement as speedily as possible’. 18 Mar 1858 Ordered, following examination of tenders, that the stated persons be declared contractors for the supply of stated goods and foodstuffs for the next six months. 8 April 1858 Copy of hospital dietary referred to in medical officer’s report; names of persons elected to be members of boards of management for the dispensary districts of Newmarket, Kanturk, Milford, and Boherbue.
29 April 1858 Medical Officer’s report, noting that there were 205 patients in
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