Appendix (A,) 320 APPENDIX to FIRST REPORT from the COMMISSIONERS /( Sick Poor, Munster, County Cork.
Examinations taken by Thomas Martin, Esq.
John Lalor, Esq.
Par.
Hoty Trinity, or Christ Church, in City of Cork.
°r inquiring The relief afforded was not in the shape of money; clean straw was given to th were without bedding, and blankets were given to some of the most destitute.
°S6 To provide food a soup boiler was erected, and rations, consisting of bread and were given to persons who were ascertained to be really in distress.
S0llP-It was endeavoured to confine this relief (as much as possible) to the aged and infi the widows and orphans, of which class there was a great number in the^parish • it
^ found, however, to extend relief to some unemployed labourers who were in great distr^ and also to some tradesmen.
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There were likewise female servants out of place, who were in the greatest distress a A to whom relief was given.
' It was endeavoured in all cases to stop the relief the instant the person ceased to be ' absolute want of it.
" Some people when they got employment came and told us of ^ honourably, thanked us for the benefit they had received, and said they did not want it anv longer."
^ On examination the parish was found to contain some tradesmen in a most miserable condition, who had been reduced entirely by ill health ; being (through sickness) thrown out of employment, they were obliged to send to the pawn office, until at last they had become almost totally destitute.
Persons who attended the Examination.
Par.
Innishannon.
Bar.
Kinnalea.
Mr.
Patrick J.
Annell, baker.—Benjamin
Bellew, labourer.—Mr.
David Butler, farmer of
75 acres.—Mr.
Denis Callaghan, farmer of 26 acres.—Rev.
Michael Field, p.p.,
of Lefinny and Knurkairly, barony of Innishannon.—Mr.
Jeremiah Hurley, farmer of 47 acres.—Mr.
John Deary, innkeeper—Mr.
Thomas Leary, foundling overseer.—Denis
McCarthy, labourer, formerly farmer and overseer of the parish.—Mr.
Eugene McCarthy.—Mr.
Johnstone Mackintosh, clerk of the petty sessions.—Rev.
Thomas Meade, rector.—Rev.
William More, Crostiiwaite, curate.—William
Neal, labourer.
When a poor person is sick, there is in general a collection made, or some of the family go about and get a little assistance from the gentry of the town.
" When the husband is sick, his wife or daughters will get something at the gentlemen's houses.
The dispensary surgeon behaves very kindly; there is no fault to be found with him at all."—Neal
Persons who attended the Examination.
Parishes Kilbrogan and Ballymoodan.
Bars.
Kinnalmeahy and East Carbery, (East Division.)
John Bassett, weaver.
-Belcher, m.
d.—Mr.
Thomas Bullen, farmer, holding 57 acres.—
Mr.
Robert Clark, farmer—Mrs.
Rebecca Clarke, employed to take foundlings to Cork.—Mr.
Robert Edwards, tobacconist.—Mr.
Michael Falvey, churchwarden of 1833.—Mr.
John Fawcett, shopkeeper, churchwarden of Ballymoodan in 1833.—Thomas
II a ward, weaver.—Mr.
William Horney-brook, farmer.—Rev.
William Hunter, minister of the presbyterian con¬ gregation.—Rev.
Arthur Knox, vicar of Ballymoodan.—John
Lindsay, weaver.—Mr.
Richard James Long, churchwarden of Kilbrogan for the present year.—Rev.
Daniel M'Sweeney, r.
c, rector.—Rev.
Horace T.
Newman, rector of Kilbrogan.—Robert
Philips, weaver.—Cornelius
Quillinan, labourer.—Mr.
George Stanley, farmer, holding 175 acres.—Mr.
Thomas Tanner, farmer.—Mr.
Stewart Tresillian, churchwarden of the present year.
Cobnelius Quillinan states, the only way the poor man has of obtaining the neces¬ sary relief in sickness is for his wife to take out and pawn the blanket off his bed to give him a drink, and that he has often known it to be done; this is before she goes to beg.
wheii every thing is gone, and there is nothing else for it, they are supported by the alms wmcii a part of the family will collect from the neighbours; sometimes two neighbours will go-about to the gentlemen and shopkeepers of the town, and get a little subscription; witness says, that he never knew any one become a regular beggar on this account, and the reason is, that it does not break down the pride to ask for alms'in a case of sickness.
Where there are two labouring men in one family, a father and son, who have constan employment, they may lay by something; but where a man has a whole family depending on him, he cannot do it.
The Rev.
Mr.
Newman says, "Besides the liability to imposition, which such an arrange¬ ment as the giving food, fuel, &c.
to the necessitous sick, would have, I fear that it peop were assured of having such comforts provided for them, in case of their receiving a pensary surgeon's certificate that they were unable to work, it would very mucii r exertion."
^ Doctor Belcher is of opinion that something of the kind is indispensably necessary, that in such a town as Bandon it might be very well managed.
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The poor people give the medical men credit for great kindness and readiness to com visit them, whenever they are wanted.
