Item 5 - Bound volume containing the minutes of the proceedings of the Galway Urban Sanitary Authority.

350 pp

Bound volume containing the minutes of the proceedings of the Galway Urban Sanitary Authority. The pages include 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:'. Entry dated 5 June 1903 states that 'A letter was read from Doctor Collinridge medical officer of health to the London Corporation stating that a number of Army Blankets which were infected with typhoid bacteria had been sent to the Salthill Industrial School- Secretary had a letter from the manager of the Industrial School stating that only one sample blanket and quilt had been received and had been since burned also read letter Doctor M.A. Leyden bearing out his statement.' Entry dated 11 May 1905 includes the following notice of motion from Martin Redington 'I here by give notice that, at the meeting to be held on 4th May, I will move that Labourers' Dwellings be built on the grounds at Prospect Hill in possession of the Urban Council, and that the necessary negotiations be at once entered into with the Local Government Board to apply for a loan for the purpose.' According to report dated 3 May 1906 '13 cases of Typhus Fever were reported from Claddagh the necessary steps to prevent a spread of the disease had been taken. One case of Typhoid was reported from No. 2 District.'

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