Item 2 - Bound volume containing the minutes of the proceedings of the Galway Urban Sanitary Authority.

c. 380 pp

Bound volume containing the minutes of the proceedings of the Galway Urban Sanitary Authority. The pages includes printed formatting and fields, each entry is spread over three pages. Each entry contains the following fields 'Minutes of Proceedings of the Galway Urban Sanitary Authority, at their meeting held on ...', 'Present', 'in the Chair' 'Other members Present', 'Reports of Committees read and disposed of as follows, namely:', 'Record of Sanitary work performed since the date of the last Meeting', 'The following communications from the Local Government Board were read', 'The following Special Business came before the Meeting', 'The following Accounts were laid before the Meeting, and Cheques drawn for the amounts:', 'Reports of Medical Officers of Health, and Orders made thereon:', 'Monthly Report of the Medical Officer of Health read, and the following Orders made thereon:', 'The Report as to the Inspection of Common Lodging Houses was read as follows, and the following Orders were made thereon:'. Not every field is filled in for every entry. Also includes A-Z index. Entry dated 2 December 1880 includes discussion of the following subjects: 'Additional Gully Traps', 'Salthill sewerage', 'Estimated for repairs of Reservoirs', 'Sewerage Rate Collection', 'Drainage of the swamp at Salt Hill', 'Application from Mr. Townsend for payment of his claim of £30:18:00 in Swallows and Bagnells Trials'. Entry dated 5 January 1882 includes the following report of the medical officers of health (and orders made there on): 'Want of W.C. and Ashpit accommodation in several houses in Church Land, and Church yard place.', 'To serve notice on the parties concerned to erect W. Closets and provide ash pits.' Entry dated 7 August includes the follow statement 'read letter from the Sisters of Mercy, Magdalen Asylum stating that they were unable to meet the expenses of connecting that institution with the main drain, and requesting the commissioners to have the work done.'

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