Item 1 - Bound volume containing the minutes of the proceedings of the Galway Urban Sanitary Authority.

c. 500pp

Bound volume containing the minutes of the proceedings of the Galway Urban Sanitary Authority. Each entry includes the date, attendance, business transacted and some correspondence, many of the entries consist of quotes or summaries of letters received; the vast majority of entries are concerned with the construction and maintenance of sewers. Meetings were generally held at two week intervals on Thursdays. According to entry dated 29 October 1874 the Authority received at letter from 'Local Government Board, dated 24 October, No.22698/1874, acknowledging receipt of the application for the loan of £13500 requested by the Galway Town Commissioners to pay off the debts incurred by them in the existing waterworks and for the extension of the supply to the suburbs.' According to entry dated 20 April 1875 'The sub-sanitary officer handed in a list of the Common Lodging Houses in the Galway Urban Sanitary District numbering in all 61'. Entry dated 29 June 1876 includes a report from the sub-sanitary officer stated that 'he had made an exact measurement of the apartments of the different common lodging houses of the town as directed by the Board. He found the rooms and the approaches to them extremely clean, but in most places the ventilation imperfect.' According to entry dated 10 May 1877 'Dr. Grady reported that he had inspected the premises...situated at the Claddagh and found cesspools convenient to their dwellings which were dangerous to public health.' Report dated 14 June 1877 reports that an investigation found '51 dwelling houses in which no less than 157 animals were kept, and the numbers of cases reported would appear by Dr. Clayton's statement to have been much larger.'

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