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Actions	Gort Poor Law Union: Minute Book, 1848 Remove from selection Add to selection TitleGort Poor Law Union: Minute Book, 1848 RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services ReferenceG01/12/7 Date4 February 1848 to 1 December 1848 Production date 1848-02-04 - 1848-12-01 Scope and Content Includes - ‘Letter from the Commissioners 18 February 1848 stating causes for dissolving the Board of Guardians and intimating their intention to appoint paid of officers to manage the affairs of the Union’ (p36). - ‘That state of the burial ground on the workhouse premises having been taken into consideration by the Board, and the absolute necessity of providing a district cemetery for persons dying in the workhouse being apparent, and the Commissioners letters of the 8th and 21st inst. on this subject having been read it was resolved that the order of the late Board taking three acres of land for the purpose be immediately carried into effect’ (p39). - ‘Resolved that to enable the Vice Guardians to ascertain the actual state of the Union funs and liabilities, and in order to enable them to place the affairs of the Union in a proper and satisfactory state that application be immediately made to all persons having dealings with the Guardians to furnish their accounts to the 29th February to enable the Guardians to make arrangements for the liquidation of the debts’ (p39). - ‘The Medical Officer’s report was received and read, states that no material diminution can bee expected in sickness until the pressure on the Workhouse is reduced, he objects to the use of Indian Meal with rice stirrabout for dinner on 3 days in the week as recommended by Doctor Phelan, and suggests the issue of rice with Indian Meal to persons on out door relief. He further states that the Master was progressing favourably but not able to resume his duties’ (p106). - ‘Letter 21st April 1848 from Mr S. George of Tyrone, agreeing to let the House near Kinvarra now used as a Temporary Fever hospital and about 30 perches of land adjoining same for the purpose of erecting Fever sheds thereon, and a portion of detached land about a quarter of an acre in extent to be used as a cemetery for the Hospital a the rate of forty five pounds a year free of all charges to be taken for three years certain, and for such further period as the same may be required’ (p130). - ‘The Medical Officer’s report being read it appeared tthe sanitary condition of the House was in a favorable state, and altho the number of sick appears large this was caused by the admission of many cases of disease into the workhouse, which could not be properly provided for by an allowance outside, several of whom are in such a state of exhaustion at the period of their admission, the deaths in the class, occur very frequently and thereby the mortality is apparently increased’ (p189). - With regard to rate collection the Vice Guardians resolved that having ‘regard to the general interests of the Union, much doubt has arisen on our minds as to the expediency of attempting to collect a new rate ground on the existing valuation of this period. We are led to believe that it would be more judicious to defer the making of the rate until September by which means an opportunity will be afforded for correcting the valuation, and as he crops will be shortly after available, a high poundage rate maybe then struck with a prospect of its being satisfactorily collected. That during the interval the valuation Books may be submitted to general inspection and objections thereto investigated by the Valuation, and that at the same time the most strenuous exertions shall be made to get in the arrears of the present rate…’(p243) - ‘A change having been made in the food of the Inmates by the use of bread baked in the house it appears desirable, that the Workhouse dietary should undergo a revision, and it was resolved, that the following shall be the ordinary house dietary in future….’(p383). - ‘Resolved, That the Commissioners be informed that the Vice Guardians having obtained a thorough and intimate acquaintance with the state of the Union, as regards the means available, for paying rate, are of opinion, from the failure of the potato crop, the injury sustained by the previously very inferior crops of wheat and other grain from the constant wet weather, together with the almost total absence of live stock, that the higher rated districts rate altogether unable to pay the rate as estimated, and that having regard to the means available in the Union for payment and to expedition in the collection they consider that it would not be judicious at present to make a higher rate in any electoral division than 7/6 in the pound, but before coming to any determination they request the Commissioners opinion with as little delay as possible so that a rate may be made with all possible dispatch’ (p412). - Extent553pp LanguageEnglish Persons keywordPoor Law Union Conditions governing accessAvailable on microfilm 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 G01/12 Gort Poor Law Union, 1844-1921 1844 - 1921fonds contains 7 parts G01/12/1-103 Gort Poor Law Union, Board of Guardian Minutes Books, 1844-1921 1844-1921series contains 98 parts G01/12/7 Gort Poor Law Union: Minute Book, 1848 4 February 1848 to 1 December 1848file

TitleGort Poor Law Union: Minute Book, 1848

RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services

ReferenceG01/12/7

Date4 February 1848 to 1 December 1848

Production date 1848-02-04 - 1848-12-01

Scope and Content

Includes

- ‘Letter from the Commissioners 18 February 1848 stating causes for dissolving the Board of Guardians and intimating their intention to appoint paid of officers to manage the affairs of the Union’ (p36).

- ‘That state of the burial ground on the workhouse premises having been taken into consideration by the Board, and the absolute necessity of providing a district cemetery for persons dying in the workhouse being apparent, and the Commissioners letters of the 8th and 21st inst. on this subject having been read it was resolved that the order of the late Board taking three acres of land for the purpose be immediately carried into effect’ (p39).

- ‘Resolved that to enable the Vice Guardians to ascertain the actual state of the Union funs and liabilities, and in order to enable them to place the affairs of the Union in a proper and satisfactory state that application be immediately made to all persons having dealings with the Guardians to furnish their accounts to the 29th February to enable the Guardians to make arrangements for the liquidation of the debts’ (p39).

- ‘The Medical Officer’s report was received and read, states that no material diminution can bee expected in sickness until the pressure on the Workhouse is reduced, he objects to the use of Indian Meal with rice stirrabout for dinner on 3 days in the week as recommended by Doctor Phelan, and suggests the issue of rice with Indian Meal to persons on out door relief. He further states that the Master was progressing favourably but not able to resume his duties’ (p106).

- ‘Letter 21st April 1848 from Mr S. George of Tyrone, agreeing to let the House near Kinvarra now used as a Temporary Fever hospital and about 30 perches of land adjoining same for the purpose of erecting Fever sheds thereon, and a portion of detached land about a quarter of an acre in extent to be used as a cemetery for the Hospital a the rate of forty five pounds a year free of all charges to be taken for three years certain, and for such further period as the same may be required’ (p130).

- ‘The Medical Officer’s report being read it appeared tthe sanitary condition of the House was in a favorable state, and altho the number of sick appears large this was caused by the admission of many cases of disease into the workhouse, which could not be properly provided for by an allowance outside, several of whom are in such a state of exhaustion at the period of their admission, the deaths in the class, occur very frequently and thereby the mortality is apparently increased’ (p189).

- With regard to rate collection the Vice Guardians resolved that having ‘regard to the general interests of the Union, much doubt has arisen on our minds as to the expediency of attempting to collect a new rate ground on the existing valuation of this period. We are led to believe that it would be more judicious to defer the making of the rate until September by which means an opportunity will be afforded for correcting the valuation, and as he crops will be shortly after available, a high poundage rate maybe then struck with a prospect of its being satisfactorily collected. That during the interval the valuation Books may be submitted to general inspection and objections thereto investigated by the Valuation, and that at the same time the most strenuous exertions shall be made to get in the arrears of the present rate…’(p243)

- ‘A change having been made in the food of the Inmates by the use of bread baked in the house it appears desirable, that the Workhouse dietary should undergo a revision, and it was resolved, that the following shall be the ordinary house dietary in future….’(p383).

- ‘Resolved, That the Commissioners be informed that the Vice Guardians having obtained a thorough and intimate acquaintance with the state of the Union, as regards the means available, for paying rate, are of opinion, from the failure of the potato crop, the injury sustained by the previously very inferior crops of wheat and other grain from the constant wet weather, together with the almost total absence of live stock, that the higher rated districts rate altogether unable to pay the rate as estimated, and that having regard to the means available in the Union for payment and to expedition in the collection they consider that it would not be judicious at present to make a higher rate in any electoral division than 7/6 in the pound, but before coming to any determination they request the Commissioners opinion with as little delay as possible so that a rate may be made with all possible dispatch’ (p412).

Extent553pp

LanguageEnglish

Persons keywordPoor Law Union

Conditions governing accessAvailable on microfilm 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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