Galway Hospital, Board of Management Minutes, 1892-1922

Bound volumes of manuscript minutes, with gaps, recording details of attendance and proceedings of monthly meetings of the Board of Management of Galway County Hospital relating to the management, maintenance and repair, administration and financing of the hospital.

Minutes, from 1894 onwards include statistics on the number of patients, male and female, admitted and discharged to the hospital over the previous month, and the number remaining, together with returns showing the several Unions in County Galway in which the patients in the hospital resided.  The minutes also include confirmation that various reports, financial and other records, such as the Patients’ Register, Ledger, the Clerk’s Account of Petty Disbursements, and the Clerk’s Estimate of Provisions and Necessaries Required, together with the reports of the Finance and Visiting Committees, the Matron (whose report often gives the names of ward maids, cooks,  trainee nurses, nurses and so on), and of the Medical Staff were produced, examined and approved together with details of required action relating to the information provided therein; and also includes details of orders and letters received from or written to the Local Government Board and others, and details of subsequent resolutions passed and instructions issued authorising required action.

The minutes are generally dated, and signed by the Chairman of the Board, and the Hospital Registrar or Clerk.

Average size approximately 450pp