Fermoy Board of Guardians
IE CCCA/BG/89
9 Nov 1870 County Surveyor’s report regarding Castletownroche water supply.
16 Nov 1870 Warrant from the parish of St Marylebone for the removal of a woman born in Mitchelstown parish and her child. The master reported that the woman and child, in the charge of an official, arrived at the workhouse . 7 Dec 1870 Board of Education letter forwarding an extract from their inspector’s report. It states ‘the course of training and instruction appears w ell adapted to the age, capacity, and social circumstances of the pupils’. He notes ‘In the female department the pupils are very young, their average being only 6.6 whilst that of the boys is 9.2’. 21 Dec 1870 Master’s report suggesting ‘the propriety of appointing a paid female nurse for the Fever Hospital’ and proposing Miss Eliza Dwyer for the post. Resolved, that the board ‘fully approve of the sealed order for the appointment of a general unions apothecary, and for establishing a general depot for go od and genuine drugs’. It is preferred to the existing ‘system of medical contracts’. It is added ‘there should be a stringent system of inspecting drugs by highly qualified analytical chemists’. 22 Feb 1871 Master’s report regarding the late porter, referring to missing clothing and money taken from inmates. One inmate reported that she pawned one of her petticoats and gave some of the money raised to the porter ‘to buy tea and sugar for her occasionally’. [See also 15 Feb 1871]
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29 Apr 1899 – 22 Jul 1899
The volume contains both Fermoy Union and Rural District Council minutes up to 20 May 1899. Thereafter, only RDC minutes are recorded. The book was discontinued in use after 22 July. The RDC minutes are written into the supplemental sheets for Public Health Acts and Labourers Acts proceedings. The board of guardians minutes, in addition to ordinary proceedings, record proceedings under the Medical Charities Act, Vaccination Acts, and Dispensary Houses Act. Most guardians, excepting urban guardians, served as councillors.
Includes;
29 April 1899 LGB letter stating, ‘in reference to entries contained in the first minutes of proceedings of the Rural District Council’, that clerks serving both the board and the RDC must keep all reco rds ‘totally distinct and separate’, and advising ‘if this instruction is not carefully observed’ they will authorise the RDC to appoint a clerk ‘other than the clerk to the board of guardians’. [In the RDC minutes, an LGB letter states that minutes should be forwarded ‘in three distinct and separate portions’: proceedings under the Public Health Acts, under the Labourers’ Acts, and other proceedings]
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