Ballinasloe Poor Law Union: Minute Book of Board of Guardians
TitleBallinasloe Poor Law Union: Minute Book of Board of Guardians
RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services
ReferenceG00/05/63
Date10 January 1920 to 22 May 1920
Scope and ContentVolume 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
- 'Resolved/- That We, the Ballinasloe Board of Guardians strongly commend to the Traders and People of Ballinasloe Urban and Rural Districts the recent automatic boycott project started in Tuam which we believe is necessary in order to bring the Carsonites of the North to realize that their best interests lie in a one free and undivided Ireland, and that we call on the Traders of Ballinasloe and surrounding towns to follow the excellent lead given by the Traders and people of Tuam' (p99).
- 'Resolved /- That We, …..beg to congratulate the sterling Irishmen of the North of Derry in battering down the walls of that Citadel and selecting that staunch old Fenian Hugh O'Doherty as Maylor (sic) of that old City' (p99).
- 'Resolved /- That in view of the very serious report of the Local Government Board's Medical Inspector Dr. Clinch on the Financial condition of the Galway County Hospital in which he states that the finances of the Institution are in a hopeless condition we strongly represent to the Local Government Board the absolute injustice of forcing the Ratepyaers of our Union to pay an impost of £1,000 towards the upkeep of this admittedly badly managed Institution till we are satisfied that its management be placed on proper business lines' (p179, see also p347).
Extent533pp
LanguageEnglish
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