Kanturk Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/98
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8 Nov 1877 – 2 May 1878 Supplemental sheets for proceedings under the medical charities acts and for proceedings of the board as a sanitary authority follow the ordinary minutes.
Includes:
8 Nov 1877 Letter from the board’s solicitor regarding a claim for expenses from a constable in Brosna in connection with a burial; ordered, on foot of a report of the inspector under the Cattle Disease Act regarding two cows and a calf, valued at £30, slaughtered near Dromina, that compensation of £22 10s be paid. 15 Nov 1877 Master’s report stating that a man ‘who was brought over from one of the London Unions on the 6 th July 1875 with his two children and who absconded over the wall leaving his two children behind on the 17 th July 1875 came back for readmission here last night, and is now in the workhouse. His children are out at nurse’. It is ordered that the children be brought back and that the man be prosecuted. 22 Nov 1877 LGB letter stating that they have received ‘ a favourable report of the condition of the workhouse and hospitals’; law officer’s report recommending ‘the pump handle to be removed from the well on the Strand [Kanturk] owing to the pollution of its wa ter’; Kanturk Dispensary District medical officer’s report regarding houses unfit for habitation and sanitary nuisances, including a pig in one dwelling house. 29 Nov 1877 Letter from the Privy Council Veterinary Department regarding appointments under the Pleura Pneumonia Act; Letter from Newmarket Petty Sessions regarding their appointment of an inspector under the Explosives Act 1875. 20 Dec 1877 Notice of eviction served on relieving officer, Carolin Margaret Nash, plaintiff, Venerable Archdeacon O’Re gan, defendant; ordered, assistant schoolmistress’s husband permitted to reside with her during the Christmas holidays.
10 Jan 1878 Medical Officer’s return reporting 90 successful vaccinations in the Milford Dispensary District in the year ended 31 Dec 1877.
17 Jan 1878 Resolution, to be sent to the lord lieutenant, chief secretary and county members, regarding ‘proposed legislation for the restriction of the Irish cattle trade’. Suggestions are made regarding limiting restrictions in cases of pleura pn eumonia and foot and mouth disease, and it is added ‘this board would deem further restrictions on the Irish cattle trade highly detrimental to the interests of this country’. 30 Jan 1878 Sanitary report regarding several premises at Scarteen, Newmarket, noting they ‘are in a very unhealthy state owing to dung heaps being placed up to the back doors, and all in want of privies’.
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