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Actions	Clifden Poor Law Union, Rough Minute Book, 1853-54 Remove from selection Add to selection TitleClifden Poor Law Union, Rough Minute Book, 1853-54 RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services ReferenceGPL3/18 Date14 December 1853 - 7 June 1854 Creator Clifden Poor Law Union Production date 1853-12-14 - 1584-06-07 Scope and Content Includes:- -‘Mr Kearns (Relieving Officer)also informed the Board that he had been served with an Eviction notice against 87 families in the Electoral Divisions of [Derrycuula] and Dunloughan, the notice was signed by Mr John Robertson’ (p51). -‘The Master reports that on the morning of Saturday last Samuel [Panes] Esq. P.P. called his attention to a woman named Biddy Joyce an inmate of the Infirm Ward whom he found crossing the River near the Workhouse with a bottle of milk in her possession which she stated belong to herself and was carrying it to her daughter who was then sick in Ardbear’ (p69). -‘PL Commissioners' letter no. 60,756/53, 29^th Dec., stating that they the PLC being responsible that Medical Aid shall be available when required by the sick poor they cannot consent to the proposal of the Board of Guardians to reduce the number of Dispensary districts and consequently the number of Medical Officers employed therein under the Medical Charities Act’ (p70, see also p73). -‘That of the 21 persons ordered to be discharged by the Board on the last day the Master discharged 10 of them, the remaining 11 could not be discharged in consequence of their own clothes not being in the old clothes store and would suggest that the Board do procure clothes for them in order to enable the Master to discharge them at once, the greater portion of which were admitted as scholars and being a long time in the House their own cloths would not fit them’ (p188). -Report from the Medical Officer regarding the conditions of the inmates and request the Board of Guardians to remedy same, advising ‘that no time should be lost in putting the House in proper order and placing the paupers in such a position as to best enable them to resist disease but especially that pestilence (cholera) which is making rapid strides towards our Union...’ (p267). -PL Commissioners ‘Recommending the Guardians to cause active legal proceedings to be taken for the recovery of the rates for which Mr Crawford was collector and if necessary to avail themselves of the best professional assistance which they can obtain to effect the payment of the rates without further delay’ (p431). Extent513pp 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. Digital referencesAvailable online at Access URL Here LevelItem Hierarchy browser GPL3 Clifden Poor Law Union 1849 - 1921 (with gaps)fonds contains 5 parts GPL3/ 1 - 107 Clifden Poor Law Union, Board of Guardian Minutes 1849 - 1921 (with gaps)series contains 97 parts GPL3/18 Clifden Poor Law Union, Rough Minute Book, 1853-54 14 December 1853 - 7 June 1854Item

TitleClifden Poor Law Union, Rough Minute Book, 1853-54

RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services

ReferenceGPL3/18

Date14 December 1853 - 7 June 1854

Production date 1853-12-14 - 1584-06-07

Scope and Content

Includes:-

-‘Mr Kearns (Relieving Officer)also informed the Board that he had been served with an Eviction notice against 87 families in the Electoral Divisions of [Derrycuula] and Dunloughan, the notice was signed by Mr John Robertson’ (p51).

-‘The Master reports that on the morning of Saturday last Samuel [Panes] Esq. P.P. called his attention to a woman named Biddy Joyce an inmate of the Infirm Ward whom he found crossing the River near the Workhouse with a bottle of milk in her possession which she stated belong to herself and was carrying it to her daughter who was then sick in Ardbear’ (p69).

-‘PL Commissioners' letter no. 60,756/53, 29^th Dec., stating that they the PLC being responsible that Medical Aid shall be available when required by the sick poor they cannot consent to the proposal of the Board of Guardians to reduce the number of Dispensary districts and consequently the number of Medical Officers employed therein under the Medical Charities Act’ (p70, see also p73).

-‘That of the 21 persons ordered to be discharged by the Board on the last day the Master discharged 10 of them, the remaining 11 could not be discharged in consequence of their own clothes not being in the old clothes store and would suggest that the Board do procure clothes for them in order to enable the Master to discharge them at once, the greater portion of which were admitted as scholars and being a long time in the House their own cloths would not fit them’ (p188).

-Report from the Medical Officer regarding the conditions of the inmates and request the Board of Guardians to remedy same, advising ‘that no time should be lost in putting the House in proper order and placing the paupers in such a position as to best enable them to resist disease but especially that pestilence (cholera) which is making rapid strides towards our Union...’ (p267).

-PL Commissioners ‘Recommending the Guardians to cause active legal proceedings to be taken for the recovery of the rates for which Mr Crawford was collector and if necessary to avail themselves of the best professional assistance which they can obtain to effect the payment of the rates without further delay’ (p431).

Extent513pp

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.

Digital referencesAvailable online at Access URL Here

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