Clifden Poor Law Union archive collection, Descriptive List, GPL3.pdf

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
- „Letter from Messrs Bennett Bros. ..relative to the Guardians‟ inquiry as to freight for delivery
of the Seed potatoes at three ports viz, Kilkerrin, Roundstone and Clifden, asking for
particulars as to the depth of water at each port and distance between each, and requesting
to be informed when the potatoes would be required to be shipped and if the inspection
would be in bulk or in bags….‟ (p504b).
- Medical Officer reported two Lydon brothers from Lettergesh are suffering from typhus fever
(p563).
78. 27 March 1895 – 18 September 1895 Includes:
- Chaplain advised, „Having administered the last sacrament to Kate Hearne, a Mary Gorham
who happened to be lying in the same ward called me to her bedside and expressed a wish
to become a Catholic. Having asked her what she was she said she was a Protestant 40
years and said she now wished to be Catholic. I called in the Hospital nurse and she
expressed the same wish in her presence, she also said yesterday she wished to see the
priest. I accordingly received her back and administered the last sacrament to her‟ (pp7-8).
- Report from P. C. Gorham, Medical Officer, regarding the family in Derryqinla „....who have
been suffering for many weeks from a very malignant form of influenza and I am happy to
say they are now in a convalescent state, but still continue very weak. I have altogether
visited these families upward of 40 times.
I much regret to state that the nurse employed to attend them contracted the disease, which
developed into a most dangerous attack of typhus fever. She died at her residence, Clifden,
on Monday the 1 st April, and was interred next day.
Her two daughters are now struck down with typhus and are in a most dangerous
condition…‟ (p33).
- „In consideration of the distress in this Union caused by the potato blight and the heavy
expenses which the ratepayers are put to for seed potatoes it is resolved that the Guardians
take the necessary steps to encourage the spraying of crops with “strawsonite” in order to
check the blight and produce an increased yield, and that the LGB be asked to facilitate
without delay the purchase of the necessary sprayers and material by advancing the funds
required‟ (p141-2).
- „Resolved: That we the Guardians...request the LGB will have John Higgins of Ballynew and
Mark McDonnell of Knockbrack both in the Cleggan Division put on the Relief Works, as they
are both very poor men with larege families and have no ways of support‟ (p143).
- Resolved: That having regard to the frequent warnings of the LGB from the reports of their
Inspectors as to the deplorable condition of our workhouse buildings, we, the Guardians
most respectfully request the Government will come to our assistance by making it a suitable
habitation for the destitute poor of those whose misfortune drives them under the shelter of
its miserable roof.
Owing to the great distress that exists in this Union the ratepayers (who suffered alike with
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41.