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Actions	Ballinasloe Poor Law Union: Minute Book of Board of Guardians, 1919-1920 Remove from selection Add to selection TitleBallinasloe Poor Law Union: Minute Book of Board of Guardians, 1919-1920 RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services ReferenceG00/05/62 Date23 August 1919 to 2 January 1920 Scope and Content Volume recording details of attendance and proceedings of weekly meetings relating to the maintenance, administration and financing of the workhouse, distribution of out-door relief, and the care of workhouse inmates relating to their accommodation and employment, and to medical, pastoral, educational, and dietary needs. Minutes include details on the number of persons accommodated in the workhouse, and the number receiving outdoor relief ; confirmation that various reports, financial and other records, such as the Workhouse Register, Provision Check Accounts, Out-door Relief Lists, Medical Officers’ books and reports of the Visiting Committee, the workhouse Master and other Officers’ were produced, examined and approved together with details of required action relating to the information provided therein, and details of all monies received or paid, and all orders and cheques given, such as those required for the supply of food and clothing; details of rates collected, arrears, and declared irrecoverably in each electoral division ; also includes details of orders and letters received from or written to the Poor Law Commissioners and others, and details of subsequent resolutions passed and instructions issued authorising required action; details of the master’s report and resolutions adopted to address any issues raised therein ; and from 1854 provision is included for minutes of the proceedings of the Board under the Medical Charities Acts and Nuisances Removal and Disease Prevention Acts, and subsequently under Public Health Acts ; from 1874 the proceedings of the Board as the Sanitary Authority are recorded ; and from 1893 the proceedings of the Board of Guardians acting as the Rural Sanitary Authority under the Labourers (Ireland) Acts are included. The minutes are generally dated, and signed by the Clerk of the Union, the Chairman. Includes an index to main resolutions passed and subjects discussed. Includes - 'Letter from the Local Government Board …drawing attention of the Boards of Guardinas and of the Councils of the Rural Districts comprised therein to the provisions of Section 7 of the Local Government Board (Ireland) Act 1919 and from which it will be observed that the Rural District of Ballinasloe No. 2 comes within the limits of population and rateable value laid down in the section, and, as a consequence, it devoles upon the Board to amalgamate it with the adjoining rural district of Athlone No. 2 in the same county, and that on Order to that effect will accordingly be issued and the necessary adjustements made in due course, and having regards to its effect on the county administrative system and poor law representations, it becomes a matter for consideration whether it would be desirale to alter the Unions concerned in a similar manner by trnasferring the Electoral Divisions constituting the Ballinasloe No. 2 District Ballinasloe Union to that of Athlone, and the Board would be glad to learn the views of the Guardians on the proposal' (p13) - 'Resolved/- "That having fully considered the question of the transfer of the Roscommon portion of the Ballinasloe Union to Athlone, we are altogether opposed to any change from the present arrangements on the following grounds (1) The change would be highly incionvenient (sic) to the Guardians concerned. (2) It would be equally inconvenient and injurious to the poor and sick in the Roscommon portion of the Union. (3) IT would deprive Ballinasloe Union of the considerabel portion of revenue contributed by Roscommon without any corresponding saving or indeed any saving at all. On these grounds we call on the Local Government Board to refrain from making any change in the present arrangements2' (p96-97). - Master reported that on 1st October 1919 48 inmates were 'transferred to the House from Portumna Union by Motor Lorry supplied by Miliary and accompanied by me and the Matron…' (p177). - 'That We, the Members of the Ballinasloe Urban Council condemn in the strongest possible manner the action of the Police for the brutal and savage attack made on defenceless men and women on Saturday last October 11th in the streets of Ballinasloe' (p239). Extent560pp LanguageEnglish Conditions governing accessAvailable by appointment. Unrestricted access. The material in this collection is available to all bona fide researchers by appointment only, and subject to the conditions of access governing the consultation of archival material at Galway County Council Archives. Conditions governing reproductionNo material may be reproduced from this collection without the written permission of the archivist, and reproductions are subject to the conditions of access. Levelfile Hierarchy browser G00/05 Ballinasloe Poor Law Union, 1842 – 1931 1842 - 1931fonds contains 36 parts G00/05/62 Ballinasloe Poor Law Union: Minute Book of Board of Guardians, 1919-1920 23 August 1919 to 2 January 1920file

TitleBallinasloe Poor Law Union: Minute Book of Board of Guardians, 1919-1920

RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services

ReferenceG00/05/62

Date23 August 1919 to 2 January 1920

Scope and Content

Volume recording details of attendance and proceedings of weekly meetings relating to the maintenance, administration and financing of the workhouse, distribution of out-door relief, and the care of workhouse inmates relating to their accommodation and employment, and to medical, pastoral, educational, and dietary needs. Minutes include details on the number of persons accommodated in the workhouse, and the number receiving outdoor relief ; confirmation that various reports, financial and other records, such as the Workhouse Register, Provision Check Accounts, Out-door Relief Lists, Medical Officers’ books and reports of the Visiting Committee, the workhouse Master and other Officers’ were produced, examined and approved together with details of required action relating to the information provided therein, and details of all monies received or paid, and all orders and cheques given, such as those required for the supply of food and clothing; details of rates collected, arrears, and declared irrecoverably in each electoral division ; also includes details of orders and letters received from or written to the Poor Law Commissioners and others, and details of subsequent resolutions passed and instructions issued authorising required action; details of the master’s report and resolutions adopted to address any issues raised therein ; and from 1854 provision is included for minutes of the proceedings of the Board under the Medical Charities Acts and Nuisances Removal and Disease Prevention Acts, and subsequently under Public Health Acts ; from 1874 the proceedings of the Board as the Sanitary Authority are recorded ; and from 1893 the proceedings of the Board of Guardians acting as the Rural Sanitary Authority under the Labourers (Ireland) Acts are included.

The minutes are generally dated, and signed by the Clerk of the Union, the Chairman. Includes an index to main resolutions passed and subjects discussed.

Includes

- 'Letter from the Local Government Board …drawing attention of the Boards of Guardinas and of the Councils of the Rural Districts comprised therein to the provisions of Section 7 of the Local Government Board (Ireland) Act 1919 and from which it will be observed that the Rural District of Ballinasloe No. 2 comes within the limits of population and rateable value laid down in the section, and, as a consequence, it devoles upon the Board to amalgamate it with the adjoining rural district of Athlone No. 2 in the same county, and that on Order to that effect will accordingly be issued and the necessary adjustements made in due course, and having regards to its effect on the county administrative system and poor law representations, it becomes a matter for consideration whether it would be desirale to alter the Unions concerned in a similar manner by trnasferring the Electoral Divisions constituting the Ballinasloe No. 2 District Ballinasloe Union to that of Athlone, and the Board would be glad to learn the views of the Guardians on the proposal' (p13)

- 'Resolved/- "That having fully considered the question of the transfer of the Roscommon portion of the Ballinasloe Union to Athlone, we are altogether opposed to any change from the present arrangements on the following grounds (1) The change would be highly incionvenient (sic) to the Guardians concerned. (2) It would be equally inconvenient and injurious to the poor and sick in the Roscommon portion of the Union. (3) IT would deprive Ballinasloe Union of the considerabel portion of revenue contributed by Roscommon without any corresponding saving or indeed any saving at all. On these grounds we call on the Local Government Board to refrain from making any change in the present arrangements2' (p96-97).

- Master reported that on 1st October 1919 48 inmates were 'transferred to the House from Portumna Union by Motor Lorry supplied by Miliary and accompanied by me and the Matron…' (p177).

- 'That We, the Members of the Ballinasloe Urban Council condemn in the strongest possible manner the action of the Police for the brutal and savage attack made on defenceless men and women on Saturday last October 11th in the streets of Ballinasloe' (p239).

Extent560pp

LanguageEnglish

Conditions governing accessAvailable by appointment. Unrestricted access. The material in this collection is available to all bona fide researchers by appointment only, and subject to the conditions of access governing the consultation of archival material at Galway County Council Archives.

Conditions governing reproductionNo material may be reproduced from this collection without the written permission of the archivist, and reproductions are subject to the conditions of access.

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