Fermoy Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/89
List of Items and Descriptions
1. Minute Books
BG/89/A
Fermoy 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. The earliest surviving volume begins in 1870, and there is a long gap thereafter until 1899. Most volumes from 1905 to 1924 are present. Gaps are indicated where they occur.
Date : 30 Mar 1870 – 19 Apr 1924 (Gaps)
Level : Series
Extent : 13 volumes
1.-9.
Missing
10.
30 Mar 1870 – 22 Mar 1871
Supplemental sheets for proceedings under the Medical Charities At and the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Acts follow ordinary minutes. The volume is indexed.
Includes:
30 Mar 1870 Lists of wardens and committees of management appointed to the dispensary districts of Fermoy, Rathcormac, Kilworth, Ballynoe, and Ballyhooly. 6 Apr 1870 PLC letter referring to the case of a woman ‘who after being prematurely confined of twins, it is alleged was in an unfit state to be removed to the workhouse and died from want of nourishment and stimulants’. PLC remark that this ‘affords an illustration of the insufficiency of the present arrangement for affording relief through the relieving officer’, and ask the board to consider dividing the union into relief districts, each with its own relieving officer.
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