Macroom Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/115
31 Jan 1920 Letter from the Cork Nurses Association advocating a substantial increase of salary for two nurses. [See 14 & 28 Feb] Board solicitor’s letter advising that the outstanding salary of the tailor (deceased) may be paid to his widow if she indemnifies the board, the solicitor not caring to put her to the expense of taking out administration. Three applications for the post of tailor read and refused. Resolution of Macroom and Ballyvourney Sinn Fein Club calling for the vacant position of master to be filled by competitive examination, ‘a thorough knowledge of Irish to be essential ’. [See later minutes, eg, 14, 28 Feb, 13 Mar] 28 Feb 1920 Letter from Medical Officer, Clonmoyle district, explaining that he did not attend Donoughmore depot yesterday ‘in consequence of a notice received by me’ [enclosed but not given in minutes]. He adds ‘I have been given to understand that nobody will attend at the present depot under existing conditions’ [ie, the ‘Troubles’. See 13 Mar and later minutes] 13 Mar 1920 LGB letter forwarding an order constituting Macroom Urban District a Poor Law Electoral Area under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1919, and assigning three members thereto. Enclosed, list of accepted tenders for half-year to 30 Sep 1920. Relieving officer’s reports on boarded out children read [copied into minutes]
27 Mar 1920 Meeting adjourned out of respect for Thomas MacCurtain.
24 Apr 1920 Lengthy resolution regarding superannuation for the late master, referring to ‘the purchasing power of money compared with pre - war days’.
20.
8 May 1920 – 25 Sep 1920
Includes:
8 May 1920 Total inmates: 73. Out door relief: 153 persons LGB letter stating that ‘they fail to see the necessity for the employment of eleven attendants for about 60 inmates, and they must decline to approve of their continued employment’ [see medical officer’s report, 22 May] .
22 May 1920 Extracts from Medical Inspector’s report on dispensary districts . Scale of extra professional fees for medical officers approved.
19 Jun 1920 Matron’s report regarding the porter’s refusal to allow the messenger, an inmate, out of the house with messages or to accompany the children to the convent school (owing to a dispute; see 3 Jul). LGB letters regarding war bonuses, including arbitration awards [recurring]. Resolution protesting at a new bank charge of 10s 6d for keeping current accounts. ‘We regard it as a movement intended to shift the burthen of increased remuneration paid to bank staffs from the shoulders of the directors to the public whose business has led to the prosperity of Irish banks’. Resolution acknowledging the authority of Dail Eireann ‘as the duly elected government of the Irish people’. Resolved, that the military authorities be asked to leave the medical officer’s residence in Ballyvourney.
Cork City and County Archives 2011
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