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Board of Guardian Minute Books
TítuloBoard of Guardian Minute Books
ReferenciaBG/118/A
Fecha
1845-1924
Ámbito de contenidoThe minute books are 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.
There are gaps in the minutes for all or part of the following years: 1841-45, 1850-54, 1856-62, 1864, 1866-69, 1872-74, 1877, 1880, 1909. See descriptive list for further details.
Includes (for example):
19 Aug 1846 Resolved [at a meeting to consider the failure of the potato crop] ‘That from experience we deprecate the system of affording gratuitous relief as likely to interfere with the industrious habits of the People’, and calling instead for funds for employment on public works.
17 Apr 1847 PLC letter regarding the refusal of local clergy to allow further Workhouse interments in churchyards.
1 May 1847 Medical Officer’s Report stressing sanitary conditions cannot be restored while ‘one batch of Fever patients are restored while another shoal are allowed admittance’ and advising ‘put your House in order before disease comes within your own doors’.
24 Aug 1848 Letter to PLC predicting ‘widespread disaffection Anarchy and plunder’ if the proposed striking and collecting of a new rate is proceeded with.
4 Jan 1849 Resolved ‘that no woman having an illegitimate child or whose character was at any period of her life notoriously bad’ be employed in the workhouse.
6 Sep 1849 Notice of resolution to seek measures to facilitate the division of the union as proposed by the Boundary Commissioners [creating a separate Youghal union].
2 Jun 1852 PLC letter regarding the eviction of 17 families in Ballyannon townland without the required notice. The relieving officer of the district is to report to the Board.
2 Apr 1856 Lists of rate payers elected to the committees of management of the dispensary districts of Aghada, Cloyne, Castlemartyr, Midleton, and Walshtownmore East.
18 Apr 1868 Resolved, ‘that the rules referring to tramps be carried out’, and that while awaiting discharge ‘these tramps must be employed in breaking stones’.
25 May 1878 Sanitary Officer’s report regarding Green’s Lane, Midleton, which he considers unsanitary and ‘entirely unfit for habitation’, noting ‘whenever cholera or smallpox have visited this town they always originate in this lane’.
2 Sep 1899 Master reports that the matron, Mother Magdalen, was violently assaulted by an inmate, noting ‘it is probable she would have killed her if one of the women had not rushed to save her’. The inmate is now in jail.
10 Dec 1920 Resolved, that the husband of the schoolmistress be permitted to reside with her in the workhouse during her confinement, subject to conditions.
There are gaps in the minutes for all or part of the following years: 1841-45, 1850-54, 1856-62, 1864, 1866-69, 1872-74, 1877, 1880, 1909. See descriptive list for further details.
Includes (for example):
19 Aug 1846 Resolved [at a meeting to consider the failure of the potato crop] ‘That from experience we deprecate the system of affording gratuitous relief as likely to interfere with the industrious habits of the People’, and calling instead for funds for employment on public works.
17 Apr 1847 PLC letter regarding the refusal of local clergy to allow further Workhouse interments in churchyards.
1 May 1847 Medical Officer’s Report stressing sanitary conditions cannot be restored while ‘one batch of Fever patients are restored while another shoal are allowed admittance’ and advising ‘put your House in order before disease comes within your own doors’.
24 Aug 1848 Letter to PLC predicting ‘widespread disaffection Anarchy and plunder’ if the proposed striking and collecting of a new rate is proceeded with.
4 Jan 1849 Resolved ‘that no woman having an illegitimate child or whose character was at any period of her life notoriously bad’ be employed in the workhouse.
6 Sep 1849 Notice of resolution to seek measures to facilitate the division of the union as proposed by the Boundary Commissioners [creating a separate Youghal union].
2 Jun 1852 PLC letter regarding the eviction of 17 families in Ballyannon townland without the required notice. The relieving officer of the district is to report to the Board.
2 Apr 1856 Lists of rate payers elected to the committees of management of the dispensary districts of Aghada, Cloyne, Castlemartyr, Midleton, and Walshtownmore East.
18 Apr 1868 Resolved, ‘that the rules referring to tramps be carried out’, and that while awaiting discharge ‘these tramps must be employed in breaking stones’.
25 May 1878 Sanitary Officer’s report regarding Green’s Lane, Midleton, which he considers unsanitary and ‘entirely unfit for habitation’, noting ‘whenever cholera or smallpox have visited this town they always originate in this lane’.
2 Sep 1899 Master reports that the matron, Mother Magdalen, was violently assaulted by an inmate, noting ‘it is probable she would have killed her if one of the women had not rushed to save her’. The inmate is now in jail.
10 Dec 1920 Resolved, that the husband of the schoolmistress be permitted to reside with her in the workhouse during her confinement, subject to conditions.
Rango114 vols.
Palabra clave de personaMidleton Board of Guardians
AccessHard copies: Accessible to Readers by appointment. Access restrictions apply to some collections. Digital object/copy: see Download Media and/or Digital Reference
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