Fermoy Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/89
declarations of acceptance of office as guardians.
39.
19 Jun 1920 – 17 Jun 1922
Minutes of ordinary proceedings are followed by sheets for financial minutes and statistical minutes, and by the supplemental sheet for proceedings under the Medical Charities Acts.
Includes:
19 Jun 1920 Annual Meeting, resolved, ‘to hold the meetings of the board of guardians monthly in future at 2 o’clock pm so as to suit the convenience of members from Mitchelstown area’. Resolved, that the board ‘acknowledge the authority of Dail Eireann as the duly e lected government of the Irish people’. [See also 21 Aug 1921] Resolved, to pledge support ‘in aid of the railway and other workers who refuse to handle war equipment for the army of occupation in this country’. 17 Jul 1920 Resolutions passed, making canvassing for appointments under the board a disqualifying offence, and requiring candidates for appointments to have a knowledge of Irish ‘which would include at least to Book III Ceachta Beaga’. An addendum adds ‘except in such cases as a candidate producing a certificate from a competent Republican authority that he was engaged in work for the Republic and had not sufficient time to study Irish’; Orders made arising out of the sale of the late Mitchelstown workhouse to Messrs Fitzgerald and Russell. [See also, e.g., 17 June 1922] 18 Sep 1920 Resolved, that the board adjourn for all but urgent business ‘until the men in prison on hunger strike are released and as a protest against the action of the government regarding them’. Enclosure, form of half-yearly tender for workhouse supplies. Medical officer’s report stating ‘that the Conna Dispensary Depot is almost a ruin and should be immediately looked after’.
16 Oct 1920 Resolved, ‘that this board of guardians do completely sever their connection with the English Local Government Board’.
18 Dec 1920 Medical officer’s report stating that the workhouse nursery is overcrowded ‘and some of the infants have to be transferred to the body of the house at night’.
19 Feb 1921 Department of Local Government letter requesting information on the admission of 18 cases of diphtheria. [See also 17 Sep 1921]
16 Apr 1921 Master’s report stating that two raids of the workhouse by the military took place on 27 February (‘between the hours of 1 o’clock and 4:30 o’clock am’) and 10 March. An inmate was arrested during the first search, and the second search is described as ‘most exhaustive’. Committee report regarding alleged impropriety on the part of the Master.
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