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

GPL3/ Clifden Poor Law Union
45. 30 July 1873 – 1 July 1874 Includes:
- „The Chairman and other Guardians having visited Ardbear grave yard, decided on taking a
portion of the field at £4 per statue acre‟ (p109, see also p149).
- „The Clerk submitted five applications from women with illegitimate children.
Ordered that the Relieving Officers serve the putative fathers of the illegitimate children at
present in the workhouse with an account of the cost of said children and require them to pay
up same‟ (pp168-9).
- Letter from Dr Brodie stating „...that he attended a woman in labour on the island of Bofin who if
he had not gone would have died as it was only by performing an operation he saved her life‟
(pp209-10).
- „Order that in the event of all future deaths of paupers in the House whose remains are not
claimed by their friends be interred in the cemetery attached to the Union for that purpose‟
(p228).
- „Ordered: That we advertise for a Doctor for the Islands at Inishbofin and Shark for this day
month at a salary of £60 pa exclusive of registration and vaccination fees. Meanwhile that the
Relieving Officer be directed to attend to any urgent cases requiring medical relief‟ (p248).
- „Ordered that we accept Mr Eyre‟s proposal to sell the land required for the graveyard at
Ardbear for £250 and that the Local Government Board be requested for permission to raise
the funds necessary for carrying out the provisions of the Burial Acts in reference to the new
cemetery‟ (pp248-249, see also GPL3/48, f166).
- „In addition to the £250 for the purchase of the land a further sum of £250 will be required for
buildings and enclosing this and other cemeteries.
Sum required £500‟ (p288, see also p329).
- „Ordered that Mrs King [Matron] (who assaulted another workhouse inmate) be sent before the
Magistrates with a request that information be taken against her‟ (p430).
- A report from Dr Brodie (LG Inspector) relating to an outbreak of fever in Bofin (May 1784,
p451).
- „Having heard from Mr J McDonnell, PLG, on Saturday evening last that Dr Brodie of
Letterfrack was lying ill of fever caught in the discharge of his duties at Inishbofin and that he
was attended by a clergyman on the previous evening.
I considered it desirable to procure medical relief for the 8 cases of Fever in Bofin. I asked Dr
Payne to proceed with me to the island ….we proceeded to sea in the Coast Guard boat and
after spending nearly five hours without getting more than half way to the Island we were
reluctantly obliged to return. Same evening, to my surprise, Dr Brodie called to say that his
illness was merely temporary, that he had been in Bofin on Thursday previous and that seven
out of the 8 cases of fever were convalescent…‟ (p469).
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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