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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
Dispensary District pending the permanent appointment, and that he be paid rate of £4.4.0
per week for his services‟ (p259).
- „That we respectfully request the consent of the LGB to be allowed divide the Clifden No. 1
Dispensary District into two Districts with the object of appointing two doctors instead of one,
as in the past, as we consider it utterly impossible for any one doctor to conscientiously
attend the numerous calls from such a wide area extending over the two parishes of Omey
and Ballindoon‟ (pp298-9). The resolution for lost 19 /11.
- „The position of Dispensary Doctor for Roundstone No. 1 being so long vacant and no
application being received for same we propose that the salary be increased from £120 to
£140 per annum to induce a Doctor to apply for the position‟ (p378).
- „That a sum of eight pounds thirteen shillings and three (pence) be paid to the Sisters of
Mercy, Clifden, in respect of services performed by substitutes employed on behalf of Sister
Mary of Mercy Byron to discharge the duties of night nurse from the 14 th January, being the
date upon which Sister M Ligouri resigned, and the 11 th March, being the date upon which
the Guardians appointed Miss Maud McVeigh as temporary night nurse...‟ (p465).
- „The Master reports that an inmate, named Michael King, was committed as a lunatic to
Ballinasloe Asylum on the 8 th instant for having assaulted another inmate named Joseph
Kelly. He was deported from America some time ago as a harmless lunatic; on several
occasions he scaled the walls and refused to have a change of clothing‟ (p524).
101. 24 June 1914 – 23 June 1915 Includes:
- „The Master reports:- that a man named James Fox, deported from America as a harmless
lunatic, was admitted to the house on the 14 th inst. on a ticket issued by the Relieving
Officer‟ (p4, see also p65, p106).
- „That patients treated in the Hospital at present and for some time past, and who are able to
pay, be made pay for their maintenance at the rate of seven shillings a week, and that the
names of such patients be furnished‟ (p27).
- Dr Casey, M.O. advised „With the approval and sanction of the LGB I propose to use one of
the hospital wards for the purpose of teaching first aid work to a section of the local National
Volunteers which in co-operation with the Ladies‟ National Health Association will form a
local “Red Cross” Corps. The wards would be only used for one hour daily and would not
cause any inconvenience to patients or others‟ (p64).
- „Ordered: That the “Irish Volunteers” newspaper be included in the list of papers to receive
advertisements‟ (p108).
- „Mrs Greene midwife for the Clifden No. 1 Dispensary District forward a medical certificate
dated 26 th Oct signed by Dr O‟Dea, Galway, to the effect that she was suffering from neuritis
and would be unfit for duty for a month‟ (p199).
- LGB letter re „proposal to board-out from the workhouse a child named John Joyce with Mrs
Honoria Coyne of Sheeauns‟ (p245, see also p307).
- „Mr Emerson, Architect, again applied for payment of £25.10.6, in respect of his services in
preparation of plans, specifications, and estimates relative to the proposed dispensaries and
Medical Officers‟ residences at Carna and Inishbofin, particulars sent herewith‟ (p259).
Cartlann Chomhairle Contae na Gaillimhe „…cuimhne dhoiciméadach Chontae na Gaillimhe a shealbhú, a chaomhnú agus a dhéanamh inrochtana’
Galway County Council - Archives „…to acquire, preserve and make accessible the documentary memory of county Galway’
64.