Maintenance of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind

Minutes relating to Maintenance of Blind Image

Minute of Milford Board of Guardians detailing the payment of the half yearly maintenance fee of J. Conaghan, a blind boy, in St. Josephs Asylum.

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Minutes relating to Maintenance of Blind Image
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Minutes relating to Maintenance of Blind Image

Minute of Milford Board of Guardians detailing the payment of the half yearly maintenance fee of J. Conaghan, a blind boy, in St. Josephs Asylum.

Copyright of Donegal County Archives: No reproduction without permission

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Following the Poor Law Rating (Ireland) Act 1876, the cost of maintaining the deaf, dumb and blind was to be paid for by the union as a whole. In Milford there is an example of a person being maintained by the union in an external institution. The maintenance of a blind boy, J. Conaghan, in an external institution is referred to in the minutes when the board of guardians authorised the payment of the half yearly fee of £6 10s for the maintenance of Conaghan in St. Josephs Asylum.

Minute of Milford Board of Guardians, 10 January 1920, detailing the payment of £6 10s for the maintenance of a blind boy called J. Conaghan in St. Josephs Asylum, (BG/119/1/88).

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