| 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 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:'. Paginated pp1-395, not every field is filled in for every entry. According to entry dated 7 March 1895 Mr. Sims submitted a report on the subject of the drainage of the swamp at Salthill. He estimated the cost filling swamp and draining same by means of pipes at £70 - Colonel O'Hara giving the material (stones) in his land free.' According to entry dated 5 march 1896 'A discussion took place as to Mr. Sims statement in his report that (in view of the increasing demand on the water supply that could under existing circumstances be sent to places situated considerably above the level of the present source of supply, it would be desirable to find out whether an efficient "Gravitation" water supply could be procured.' Attached to page 274 is a report published in October 1894 on proposed extensions to Galway Water supply. The report was compiled by L.L. Macassey, Engineer, Westminster and Belfast and submitted to J. Redington, Town Clerk, Galway. |