| Description | 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 Cherubs 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:'. Paginated pp1-395, not every field is filled in for every entry. Entry dated 3 February 1887 includes a report on the state of houses on Henry Street which states that 'the majority of the houses were small thatched ones, and could not well be connected with the main water or sewage systems, and that the only improvement that could be affected would be the erection of ash pits at the rear of the houses.' According to entry dated 3 March 1892 'notes were ordered to be served upon the occupiers of the cottages at Newtownsmith facing the Electric Company's premises to be shut up unless they be put into tenable repair.' According to entry dated 8 September 1892 'Sergeant Hart R.I.C. was appointed Inspector of Food and Drugs instead of Sergeant Redington who has been transferred to Oughterard.' |