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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
- „The Master reports that on the morning of the 29 th ult a child apparently about a week old was
brought to the Workhouse by a Policeman and a woman who stated she found the child near a
cock of hay in Ardbear that morning.
I request the Board will inform me what name he is to be called and what religion etc.
Order that the child be baptised by the name of Anthony Hay by the Roman Catholic Chaplin‟
(4 Aug 1858, p7).
- Includes list of contractors for various articles, such as pepper, rice, sugar, starch, tea, soap
(29 Sept 1858, p9).
- „Resolved that the thanks of this Board are due and hereby tendered to Mr McDermott of the
PLC office, Dublin for the very satisfactory and businesslike manner in which he has brought
the a/cs of the former Clifden Union to a close as well as for the courtesy with which he has
explained the different items comprised in these and the other a/cs of the Union‟ 13 Oct 1858,
p9).
- „Read letter from Secretaries of National Education forwarding extracts from Inspector‟s
reports;
The teacher‟s qualifications are middling and her method of conducting the school is pretty
fair.
The numbers in the school are very small and the children, with one or two exceptions are
very young and nearly all in first and second works.
The new teacher appears to be more careful and anxious for the children‟s improvement than
her predecessor, though much inferior in literacy attainment and I have to observe that
sufficient attention is not paid by the proper officer to the cleanliness of the boys who are
allowed to retire to bed for a week or more without washing their feet‟ (17 November 1858,
p9).
- „That M. Evans having asked for her discharge with her four children and being now in the
workhouse for over three years and having no clothing of their own that a sum of 15/0 be
allowed to purchase five suits of clothes for them‟ (1 Dec 1858, p9).
24. 14 December 1858 – 28 March 1860 Includes:
- „The House appears clean and well ventilated. The paupers appear healthy... Also the food for
healthy inmates is simply composed of water and oatmeal and it may be well to consider the
propriety of using some coarse meat in its preparation which we have no doubt would tend to
diminish the number of patients in the hospital at present‟ (22 Jun 1859, p7).
- „The following report was read from Medical Officer of Workhouse;
“My attention has been called to the attention in the dietary recommended by the Visiting
Committee, that meat should be added to the soup on certain days in the week for the paupers
generally, such as sheep‟s heads, [calf‟s] heads and other coarse parts. It would render the
soup more nutritious and would diminish in some degree the numbers on the hospital wards, at
present there are six persons on the hospital wards [___] them to enjoy a better dietary than
the House affords [___ ] are aged and infirm, at the same time I would recommend that the
aged and infirm do receive [___] bread and milk for breakfast in lieu of stir-about and white
bread, and meat soup three or four times in the week for dinner, and white bread and milk the
remaining days. On the whole it would be advisable to allow meat in the soup for the paupers
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