SELECT COMMITTEE ON POOR LAWS (IRELAND).
115 Thus the amount payable for salaries may be calculated at the rate of about Is.
Id.
in Viscount Clements.
the l /.,
upon the valuation of the union.
The inspector's salary is not paid out of the poor's rate, but is under the control of the Lords of Her Majesty's Treasury.
• Previous to the 5th of September 1848, the salary of the medical officer of the temporary fever sheds was paid by the Central Board of Health.
Subsequent to that date it has been paid out of the rates, as well as the maintenance of the patients and of the nurses, the cost of the medicines, spirits, &c.
But the patients are admitted on the sole responsibility of tue medical officer, without their having been previously recognized as paupers, under the Act.
An abstract of the number of patients admitted and discharged is furnished to the paid officers of the poor-house; but no nominal return.
The expenditure of the fever sheds is left to the sole control of the medical officer.
The Board of Health having lately directed a temporary dispensary to be established in Mohill, in addition to that already in existence, the medical officer receives an addition to his salary of 5 5.
a day for his attendance, which will raise it from 1717.
5 s.
a year to 2621 10 s.;
and a further charge of 2 s.
a day for an assistant, which amounts to 36/.
10 s.
by the year, which is not included in the foregoing list of salaries.
The occasional expenses of assistants for the clerk of the union, have not been included in the list of salaries.
The following Items appear in the Accounts, under the Head " Establishment."
29 June 1849.
1848 : £.
s.
d.
1848: £.
s.
d.
24 Feb.
-To Pat Fox, for removing June -To James Fitze, to pay labour¬
manure -2 2 -ers -10 --
2 March To James Smith, for excava¬ — To Ditto --ditto -20 --
tion -1 3 1 July -To Ditto --ditto -20 --
16 March To Pat Fox, for wages -2 11 9 To Ditto --ditto -30 --
1 June -To Pat Fox, for labour -2 14 -— To Ditto --ditto -25 --
— To James Fitze, to pay labour¬ — To Ditto --ditto -15 --
ers -----15 --—, To Ditto --ditto -15 --
6 July -To Pat Fox, for carting 1 13 -
— To Ditto --ditto -10 --
— To James Bohan, for car-hire .
2 12 10 — To Ditto -
-ditto -15 --
— To James Higgins -ditto -3 19 _
—r-To Ditto --ditto -20 --
— To Pat Doyle --ditto -1 15 1 — To Ditto --ditto -15 --
— To Michael Bohan -ditto -3 10 -To Ditto --ditto 15 --
To Pat Shanley --ditto -2 2 -September To Pat Fox, for horse and
— To Pat Fox ---ditto -4 5 6 cart -3 12 9
— To James Higgins, for cartage 2 -10 — To James Bohan -ditto 3 10 1 June -To James Fitze, to pay labour¬
ers -5 --Total ---£.
272 11 11
— To Ditto --ditto -5 — _
.,,
1 The numbers of able-bodied male paupers in the workhouse at the time that this expen¬ diture was incurred, are stated to be as follow :
Week ended 6 May -54
Ditto -13 May -62 Ditto -20 May -66 Ditto -27 May -67
Week ended 3 June -86 Ditto -10 June -111 Ditto -17 June -107 Ditto -24 June -105
Week ended 1 July -109
Ditto -8 July -96 Ditto -15 July -95 Ditto -22 July -105 Ditto -29 July -90
Broken stones have been purchased for the poorhouse.
The following charges appear for travelling expenses, viz.:
£.
s.
d.
R.
A.
Duncan, for travelling expenses from 1st August to the\ 9 10 _
9th September --------j Thomas Little (car-hire) -2 1210 There does not appear to have been any building account kept; although the expendi¬ ture out of the rates must have been considerable during the past year, as the additions and alterations are very extensive.
27 February 1849.
(signedj Clements.
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