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Board of Guardian Minute Books
TítuloBoard of Guardian Minute Books
ReferenciaBG/59/A
Fecha
1849-1921
Ámbito de contenidoA 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.
Includes (for example):
14 Dec 1849 Resolved, that, in view of the PLC’s direction that Castletown union pay two fifths of the costs of running and maintaining workhouses in the Bantry union, that the latter union be asked to pay proportionally the costs of any temporary workhouses in the Castletown union;
Resolved, ‘that the offer made on the part of Lord Berehaven of the house and offices at Cametringane as a temporary workhouse until the 1st August 1850 be accepted’.
25 Jan 1850 Resolved, to ask PLC to permit paupers to be housed in the timber fever sheds, the workhouse being full, ‘as there has been no patients occupying them [ie, the sheds] for a considerable time, and as many of those poor creatures come a great distance and has to remain in town, awaiting the calmness of the weather and opportunity to be sent by boat to the Bantry workhouse’. [Total inmates this week: 609]
23 Aug 1850 Response to PLC letter forwarding an estimate of nearly £200 for furniture for the workhouse. It is explained that payment would reduce the board ‘to complete financial embarrassment’, reference being made to ‘the distressed state of the union’ and ‘the total failure of the people’s foods’.
28 Dec 1850 PLC sealed order dated 18 December 1850 ‘declaring workhouse’. In consequence, paupers and goods have been removed from the auxiliary workhouse, and relieving officers are to see to the removal of paupers from Bantry workhouse.
30 Mar 1876 LGB letter regarding proposed waterworks for Castletown. The guardians ‘think that a pump or perhaps two pumps for the town will be quite enough’, and will raise the matter with the County Surveyor. [A recurring subject.]
8 Jun 1876 Notice of motions, that the salary of the medical officer of Kilcatherine dispensary district be increased from £90 to £100, and that the officer be allowed reside in Castletown, it being ‘most convenient’ and as ‘the district itself is divided into two parts by a high mountain without any road and nearly impassable even to pedestrians in the day time’.
27 Sep 1894 Extracts from the report of Dr Browne, medical inspector, relating to sanitary shortcomings in Castletown and Eyeries. [The report, and that of Dr Lyne, medical officer of Castletown Dispensary District, both draw attention to Castletown’s defective sewerage. See also, e.g., 18 Oct and 29 Nov 1894, when Lyne warns ‘if this state of things is allowed to go on an epidemic of typhoid or some other fever will probably be the result’].
18 Oct 1894 Resolution forwarded to John Morley M.P. [Chief Secretary for Ireland], asking him to ‘grant the certificate for an industrial school’ sought by ‘the nuns in Castletownbere’, and asking him to take into account ‘the barrenness and poverty of the vast territory lying between Bantry on the south and Kenmare river on the north; that in said district there are 23 electoral divisions scheduled as congested, and that for the poor of this vast and barren region government has done nothing or next to nothing’.
8 Aug 1918 Resolution requesting ‘the British and American governments to remove the present embargo on cured mackerel from this country’. Despite ‘difficulties in the shipping world’, they think that ‘a point should be strained to allow at least a portion of this valuable food to the United States’, where large quantities are purchased by the navy. The fear is expressed that once the industry is discontinued ‘it will be almost an impossibility to again revive it’.
19 Sep 1918 Letter from Colonel Kirkwood, Commanding Berehaven Garrison, making formal application for the handover of workhouse buildings to the military.
6 Feb 1919 Notice of motion ‘that the main portion of the workhouse be not reopened as such, and that the master and matron be superannuated, thereby giving the guardians an approximate saving of £200 per annum’. [Passed on 6 Mar 1919]
9 Feb 1921 Master’s report stating that the fever hospital was closed on 2 February and the staff dispensed with.
Missing volumes/dates: A/31 (24 Sept 1875-29 Mar 1876); A/61 (2 Mar 1894-29 Aug 1894); A/89 (12 Oct 1921-8 May 1924)
Includes (for example):
14 Dec 1849 Resolved, that, in view of the PLC’s direction that Castletown union pay two fifths of the costs of running and maintaining workhouses in the Bantry union, that the latter union be asked to pay proportionally the costs of any temporary workhouses in the Castletown union;
Resolved, ‘that the offer made on the part of Lord Berehaven of the house and offices at Cametringane as a temporary workhouse until the 1st August 1850 be accepted’.
25 Jan 1850 Resolved, to ask PLC to permit paupers to be housed in the timber fever sheds, the workhouse being full, ‘as there has been no patients occupying them [ie, the sheds] for a considerable time, and as many of those poor creatures come a great distance and has to remain in town, awaiting the calmness of the weather and opportunity to be sent by boat to the Bantry workhouse’. [Total inmates this week: 609]
23 Aug 1850 Response to PLC letter forwarding an estimate of nearly £200 for furniture for the workhouse. It is explained that payment would reduce the board ‘to complete financial embarrassment’, reference being made to ‘the distressed state of the union’ and ‘the total failure of the people’s foods’.
28 Dec 1850 PLC sealed order dated 18 December 1850 ‘declaring workhouse’. In consequence, paupers and goods have been removed from the auxiliary workhouse, and relieving officers are to see to the removal of paupers from Bantry workhouse.
30 Mar 1876 LGB letter regarding proposed waterworks for Castletown. The guardians ‘think that a pump or perhaps two pumps for the town will be quite enough’, and will raise the matter with the County Surveyor. [A recurring subject.]
8 Jun 1876 Notice of motions, that the salary of the medical officer of Kilcatherine dispensary district be increased from £90 to £100, and that the officer be allowed reside in Castletown, it being ‘most convenient’ and as ‘the district itself is divided into two parts by a high mountain without any road and nearly impassable even to pedestrians in the day time’.
27 Sep 1894 Extracts from the report of Dr Browne, medical inspector, relating to sanitary shortcomings in Castletown and Eyeries. [The report, and that of Dr Lyne, medical officer of Castletown Dispensary District, both draw attention to Castletown’s defective sewerage. See also, e.g., 18 Oct and 29 Nov 1894, when Lyne warns ‘if this state of things is allowed to go on an epidemic of typhoid or some other fever will probably be the result’].
18 Oct 1894 Resolution forwarded to John Morley M.P. [Chief Secretary for Ireland], asking him to ‘grant the certificate for an industrial school’ sought by ‘the nuns in Castletownbere’, and asking him to take into account ‘the barrenness and poverty of the vast territory lying between Bantry on the south and Kenmare river on the north; that in said district there are 23 electoral divisions scheduled as congested, and that for the poor of this vast and barren region government has done nothing or next to nothing’.
8 Aug 1918 Resolution requesting ‘the British and American governments to remove the present embargo on cured mackerel from this country’. Despite ‘difficulties in the shipping world’, they think that ‘a point should be strained to allow at least a portion of this valuable food to the United States’, where large quantities are purchased by the navy. The fear is expressed that once the industry is discontinued ‘it will be almost an impossibility to again revive it’.
19 Sep 1918 Letter from Colonel Kirkwood, Commanding Berehaven Garrison, making formal application for the handover of workhouse buildings to the military.
6 Feb 1919 Notice of motion ‘that the main portion of the workhouse be not reopened as such, and that the master and matron be superannuated, thereby giving the guardians an approximate saving of £200 per annum’. [Passed on 6 Mar 1919]
9 Feb 1921 Master’s report stating that the fever hospital was closed on 2 February and the staff dispensed with.
Missing volumes/dates: A/31 (24 Sept 1875-29 Mar 1876); A/61 (2 Mar 1894-29 Aug 1894); A/89 (12 Oct 1921-8 May 1924)
Rango86 vols.
Palabra clave de personaCastletown Board of Guardians
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