Gort Poor Law Union: Minute Book, 1852
Includes
- ‘Resolved unanimously that we view with unfeigned regret the separation likely to occur from this Board of one o of its most worthy and influential members, Lord Viscount Gort, whose active and human cooperation has ever been afford with equal anxiety for the interest of the rate payers and the exigencies of those requiring relief, and that our Chairman be requested to convey to his Lordship a copy of this resolution with our several good wishes for the welfare and prosperity of his Lordship and his very amiable family with a hope that although he has changed his residence still we shall not altogether loose his very valuable assistance’ (p59, see also p75).
- ‘The Medical Officer reports that he is happy to be able to state a steady decline in the number of opthhalmia cases and that the house is in other respects remarkably healthy and free from the forms of epidemic disease’ (p235).
- Letter from the Poor Law Commissioners advising that the ‘Guardians have not acted in accordance with the recommendations of the Commissioners as to making a more sufficient rate and the Commissioners point out that it will be necessary that a further rate should be struck at an early period if the present insufficient scale of rates be adhered to’ (p284).
- Following a query from Mr Perrott of Cork regarding a previous proposal to erect a mill the Board resolved that ‘the character of their invention is not in any way involved as the Board have a high opinion of the Mill, but from the reduced number of paupers at present tin the house the Board consider it inadvisable to go to any further expense in the erection of a labour test’ (p397).