Galway Poor Law Union, Board of Guardians Minutes, 1890
Includes;
-‘Resolved - We beg to urge the Treasury the vital necessity of quickly granting railway communication between Clifden and Galway, Hitherto we had some differences of opinion as to the best route: we are convinced however that the importance of opening Connemara by railway communication between Galway and Clifden far outsights the question of the direction of the railroad, and we willingly accept on this head the decision arrived at by the Royal Commission of which Sir James Allport was Chairman and the recent Special Commission of Inquiry of which Sir John Ball Greene was Chairman, and which held their sittings at Clifden and Galway. We beg therefore, to ask that the railway so approved be forthwith constructed. We ground our application on the utter necessity of this railway and the important and widely extended interests which for years have pointed to the urgent requirement of this most desirable railway project’ (pp36-37, see also p63).
-Details of staff salaries (p111)
-MO for Galway no. 3 districted reported Scarlatina had broken out in the village of Kilmurvy, Arrange Island (p181).
-MO for Turloughmore District advised: ‘Two fresh cases of fever have occurred during the past week, one at Annagh East [Corrandulla] and the other at Carnaun, localities very remote from each other. Both houses are very clean and limewashed, with the exception of these two cases the District is quite free from any epidemic disease and in a Sanitary and healthy condition’ (pp180-181).
-‘Resolved. That the Clerk be asked to write to the board of Works inquiring if they will grant a loan of £100 to provide a well in the village of Lydican’ (p259).
-Delay in building a Dispensary and residence for the MO in the Oranmore district (p332b).
-‘Letter from Patrick Griffin whose tender for the work of completing the building of the boundary wall etc of Rahoon new Cemetery was accept at last meeting on condition that he would make good any defective work in the portion of the wall already built, stating that he accepted this condition as part of his contract’(p386).
-Tenders for annual supplies to the workhouse considered (p507).
-‘From the Manager of the Boys’ Industrial School, Galway stating that he intends to apply to the Lord Lieutenant for the discharge of a boy named George Gaskin who through delicacy is unfit for industrial training. Requesting to be informed whether he will be received into the Workhouse if discharged from the Industrial School’ (p584).
-Case of Bridget Toole, ‘a discharged prisoner from Galway jail, who it appears, is at present suffering from fever...’ (p635).