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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
visiting all the families likely to be in want of food, 8 families were supplied with provisional
relief and several others to whom he gave provisional tickets of admission to the workhouse,
all of whom refused to avail themselves of such relief.
The state of the Island is healthy and he learned from the Medical Officer that there is no
epidemic disease. It is probably the distress will be much felt from the next few months and
will require a resident Relieving Officer on the island, there is nothing in the way of bread, rice
or necessaries for the sick on the island‟ (p429).
- „There are at present 23 cases of fever in the workhouse fever hospital, the greater number of
these have been admitted from the Town of Clifden and neighbourhood and as fever seems
disposed to spread no doubt there will be many new cases seeking admission.
It will be therefore necessary for the proper treatment of the pauper patients to have the
hospital in the most efficient state possible. It will be necessary to procure a proper supply of
sheeting of which there is a short supply, also all other necessaries such as straw bedding etc.
The fever is as yet of a mild type and there have been no deaths but it is impossible to say
how long this may continue but to ensure it as much as possible no means within our reach
should be omitted‟ (18 Mar 1863, pp487-488).
(29.)
30. 4 November 1863 – 6 April 1864 Includes:-
- „That from this day forth no pauper shall leave the House without a written pass from the
Master who will make his report on next Board day after issuing such pass to the Board,
except Michael Conneely and James Mullen who are now named as messengers and none
else…‟ (f5).
- „Master reports that Mary Vaughan was recommended by the Magistrate to be turned out of
workhouse.
Order To be discharged‟ (f114).
- „Read letter from Mr Geo Brennan relative to cultivation of flax in the Union.
Resolved that Mr Brennan‟s letter relative to the encouragement of the growth of flax in this
Union in which the poor are struggling under an over taxation and high rents without public
employment of any kind and very little private [___] [_____] wages be considered on this day
fortnight…‟ (f135).
- „Resolved that we consider the Resolution of the Board on the 10 th day of February relative to
the abolition of the Church establishment as entirely out of place and calculated to create a
religious discord in this Board and not to promote the due and important fulfilment of the
several duties of each individual forming this Board….‟ (f148).
- Notice of motion proposing the reduction in the salaries of the Officers (f148, see also f166,
f195, f217).
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’
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