Ballinasloe Poor Law Union: Minute Book of Board of Guardians 1918

Includes:-

• 'That We, the Ballinasloe Board of Guardians protest in the strongest possible manner against any attempt to enforce Conscription on this Country which is already so denuded of man power as to be badly able to cope with the increased tillage regulations, and that we call on the Irish Party in the event of their protest being unheeded, to leave the House of Commons and return to Ireland to consider the best means of resisting conscription' (p13).
• ‘I beg to report that on the 17^th instance a child was born of Ellen Culkeen, recently admitted and registered as unmarred’ (22 June 1918).
• ‘That this Board protests in the strongest possible manner the continued attempt to deprive Irish Nationalist of the little liberty already left them, and call upon the people to resist all such attempts by continuous assertion of Irishmens’ will to freedom’ (29 June 1918).
• Master (Wyms) reported that 'on the 11^th instant the Body of the House was inspected by Officers of the Norfolk Yeomanry, with a view to ascertaining its suitability (or otherwise) as a Winter Quarter for Troops' (p514).
• '…Mr Pack-Beresford, Local Government Inspector who was present at the Meeting informed that the Military Authorities had decided to take over the Workhouse, the Infirmary and Fever Hospital for the accommodation of Troops, and stating that he was making arrangements for the transfer of the Sick and Healthy Inmates to the Portumna and Loughrea Unions …. (28 September 1918, p557).