Macroom Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/115
21.
11 Feb 1922 – 9 Dec 1922
Inside the front cover 14 letters have been enclosed, mainly from the clerk to the LGB/Department of Local Government, 1918-23, regarding appointments, especially of medical officers. No inmates are recorded in the ‘State of the Workhouse’ table preceding ordi nary minutes, but figures for out door relief are recorded up to 12 Aug, but not thereafter.
Includes:
11 Feb 1922 Out door relief: 135 persons. Report of committee appointed to investigate claims of officials whose services were dispensed with on 31 December last for superannuation and gratuities, including master, matron, and porter of the workhouse. Letter from the Superioress, Convent of Mercy, Macroom, regarding articles sold ‘to the nuns who were officials of the workhouse’. Order, in reply to LG Dept letter regarding a change of treasurer, explaining that the National Land Bank was chosen as being ‘an Irish institution, not only in origin but in sympathy’. Particulars of salaries of midwives (stated) furnished to the LG Dept. [Letter from Irish Nurses and Midwives Union regarding salaries also read] 11 Mar 1922 Clerk reports that ‘all the stock and chattels in the House’ were sold by public auction, apart from some bedding for the hospital. Assistant clerk reports stated articles commandeered by the IRA. Letter from Macroom Urban District Council regarding water rent on the workhouse up to 31 December 1921: ‘the date up to which the premises were occupied’. LG Dept letter approving of the transfer of Macroom dispensary to the workhouse, and of fitting up 20 beds in the fever hospital, in case required. Minutes for 23 Jan 1923 inserted between those for 25 Mar and 8 Apr 1922. Includes notice of a letter from the N ational Army ordering that the clerk’s office be handed over to the military authorities. Also present is an application by the treasurer for interest on overdrawn accounts of the board and RDC. The Medical Charities minutes include a report by the medical officer for Macroom on low stocks of medicines and poor quality supplies, owing to the neglect of the contractor. [Also recorded in the next volume, dated 13 Jan] 8 Apr 1922 Clerk reports a letter from Macroom UDC informing him of officers appointed to the committee of management of the County Home, and to the sub- committee ‘to be formed to replace guardians under scheme for abolishment of workhouses’. Letter from midwife, Macroom district, threatening to go on strike over pay. 13 May 1922 LG Dept letter regarding the clerk’s claim for conveyance of correspondence for the previous year, aski ng ‘whether the prohibition of the use of bicycles by the English Military did not terminate with the signing of the Truce in July last’. Solicitor’s letter regarding the board’s case against a mother for maintenance,
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