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Actions	Clifden Poor Law Union, Minute Book, 1915-1916 Remove from selection Add to selection TitleClifden Poor Law Union, Minute Book, 1915-1916 RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services ReferenceGPL3/102 Date5 July 1915 - 12 July 1916 Creator Clifden Poor Law Union Production date 1915-07-05 - 1916-07-12 Scope and Content Includes: -Letter from the Master, M. Lavelle, to the BG, advising ‘Having offered my services to the defence of our Country during the War, which the War Office have accepted, granting me a Commission, I trust you will allow me the necessary leave, and I beg to recommend to you Mr John Lydon of Streamstown as my substitute. He will undertake to discharge the duties for a salary at the rate of £50 a year with rations’ (p6). -‘Read circular letter received from the War Office, dated 8^th Sept 1915, requesting to be informed to what extent it has been possible to release eligible men from the Establishment to join His Majesty’s Forces since the LGB Cir Letter No. 55/M/1915 dated 16^th April last. The only officer who applied was the workhouse master who was released on the 5/7/1915. (p145). -‘Resolved: That, subject to the sanction of the LGB, the Clifden No. 2 Dispensary District be amalgamated with the Clifden No. 1 D.D. and that the fixed salaries attached to the latter district viz £170 for the office of M.O. and £10 as Medical [Examiner] of Health be added to Dr Casey’s salary as M.O. of the combined districts. Dr Casey to contribute a sum of £30 annually for the upkeep of a nurse on the island of Inishbofin whom the Guardians propose to appoint at a salary of £20 a year’ (p338, see also p378, with notice of motion to rescind, & p399, p419, p438). -Boarding out of Joseph Baker, aged 14 months (p405, see also p487). -‘Resolved: That we condemn the misguided action of those responsible for the recent rebellion in Ireland and that we tender to Mr Redmond and his Party our confidence’ (p425, see also p505). -‘That a scheme of amalgamation of the PL Unions and workhouses of the county is required, provided it be properly carried out and is a saving to the ratepayers, due attention being paid to the efficient administration of the Medical Charities Act in any scheme of amalgamation’ (p466). Extentc. 518pp Physical descriptionBound volume LanguageEnglish SubjectEaster Rising 1916, First World War (1914-1918) 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 GPL3/102 Clifden Poor Law Union, Minute Book, 1915-1916 5 July 1915 - 12 July 1916Item

TitleClifden Poor Law Union, Minute Book, 1915-1916

RepositoryGalway County Council Archives Services

ReferenceGPL3/102

Date5 July 1915 - 12 July 1916

Production date 1915-07-05 - 1916-07-12

Scope and Content

Includes:

-Letter from the Master, M. Lavelle, to the BG, advising ‘Having offered my services to the defence of our Country during the War, which the War Office have accepted, granting me a Commission, I trust you will allow me the necessary leave, and I beg to recommend to you Mr John Lydon of Streamstown as my substitute. He will undertake to discharge the duties for a salary at the rate of £50 a year with rations’ (p6).

-‘Read circular letter received from the War Office, dated 8^th Sept 1915, requesting to be informed to what extent it has been possible to release eligible men from the Establishment to join His Majesty’s Forces since the LGB Cir Letter No. 55/M/1915 dated 16^th April last.
The only officer who applied was the workhouse master who was released on the 5/7/1915. (p145).

-‘Resolved: That, subject to the sanction of the LGB, the Clifden No. 2 Dispensary District be amalgamated with the Clifden No. 1 D.D. and that the fixed salaries attached to the latter district viz £170 for the office of M.O. and £10 as Medical [Examiner] of Health be added to Dr Casey’s salary as M.O. of the combined districts. Dr Casey to contribute a sum of £30 annually for the upkeep of a nurse on the island of Inishbofin whom the Guardians propose to appoint at a salary of £20 a year’ (p338, see also p378, with notice of motion to rescind, & p399, p419, p438).

-Boarding out of Joseph Baker, aged 14 months (p405, see also p487).

-‘Resolved: That we condemn the misguided action of those responsible for the recent rebellion in Ireland and that we tender to Mr Redmond and his Party our confidence’ (p425, see also p505).

-‘That a scheme of amalgamation of the PL Unions and workhouses of the county is required, provided it be properly carried out and is a saving to the ratepayers, due attention being paid to the efficient administration of the Medical Charities Act in any scheme of amalgamation’ (p466).

Extentc. 518pp

Physical descriptionBound volume

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEaster Rising 1916, First World War (1914-1918)

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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