Tuam Poor Law Union, Board of Guardian Minutes, 1853
Includes index to main issues. Also Includes:-
-‘The Clerk called attention to the fact that potatoes were not now used in the soup, the price being excessive and requested the Board would under the advice of the Medical Officer authorise a change in the preparation of the soup as an article of diet’ (p2, see also p 38).
-Margaret Wilson admitted in ‘dying state’ (p20).
-Application from Mary Connolly, ‘for the clothes of her mother who died in the workhouse’ (p83).
-Thomas McCabe, orphan boy of 12 years (p87, see also pp126-7, p139, p181).
-Mary Ellen Cavanagh, inmate (p96 & p124).
-‘The department of the girls school under the charge of the Nuns is conducted with much efficiency and presents evident marks of being in a progressive state, the answering of the children was in all cases satisfactory’ (pp98-9).
-Pauper, James Gore, advised that another pauper ‘Patrick Loftus, who serves out the provisions is in the habit of selling rations for money, and that having enquired about the matter they had got sufficient though unwilling corroboration of his states. That the Porter had searched Loftus and found a purse containing 2/3 on his person...’ (p107).
-Two girls, Mary Hughes and [Sissie] Naughton, absconded (p150 & p199, p212, p228, p249).
-RO advised that ‘he had been served with a notice of the eviction of two families off the townland and ED of Headford, the property of Richard James Mansergh St George’ (p185).
-Chargeability of Mary McHugh to be amended (p189).
-‘The Visiting Committee recommended the sending to Galway of two girls to assist in instructing the school girls in embroidery and that Mr Hall, PL Inspector, be requested to select those girls and arrange for their transmission to Tuam...’ (pp225-6).
-Medical Officers for Tuam Dispensary District advised the Guardians that the ‘burying ground in the Town of Tuam is in such a state as to be injurious to the health of the occupiers of premises in the neighbourhood and in fact of the entire Town. And we certify to you that in order such proceedings may be taken by you in this behalf, as may be requisite to abate this nuisance under the powers vested in you by the Nuisances Removal and Disease Prevention Act of 1848 and its amendment Act of 1849 or any other Act tending to the same end’.
‘Resolved.....That our Chairman be requested to apply to the Lord Bishop of Tuam for a piece of ground for a cemetery’ (p292, see also p328, pp345-6).
-Letter from the MO, ‘In consequence of the presence of cholera in some parts of the British Isles and the almost certainly of its extending its ravages to this part also, I feel it my duty as your Medical Officer to tender such suggestions as to the course you should pursue in the emergency, as past experience has convinced me to be necessary for the prevention, mitigation, and relief of cholera should it appear in the districts to which your power extend under the sealed order of the Commissioners....’(p299).
-Chargeability of Honour Murphy be amended (p347).