Galway In Days Gone By

1919

Hospital rations

At Saturday’s meeting of the Loughrea Board of Guardians, Mr. P. Cahill presiding, a letter was received from the hospital helpers drawing the attention of the Board to the fact that in the new scale of dietary fixed for them there were no potatoes allowed, and there had been no provision made for dinner on Friday.

They asked that an egg each be allowed for breakfast daily, and that 1 lb. of bacon in lieu of the same amount of beef, and half-1 lb. butter in lieu of margarine be allowed weekly. The board granted the application subject to the sanction of the Local Government Board.

Mrs. M. J. Killeen, matron, wrote: “Gentlemen, – I beg to remind you that about two months ago when my rations were about to be changed I asked you to leave them as they were, and your board unanimously agreed to do so. Now the Local Government Board want to cut them down by 3s. per week, which I will not on any account agree to.

There is not a matron of any workhouse in Ireland in the matter of having her bit of food bandied about and talked of treated as I am. When the curtailing of food was first agreed to during the war it was a different thing, but now that the war is over I cannot understand why my rations are being cut down, and I will go on hunger strike before I accept the change. This is final, but I wish to state that I do not blame the members of your Board, as, with a few exceptions, they have been invariably very kind to me.”

Galway Ford dealer

Mr. W. P. Higgins, of Galway and Athenry, has, as the advertisement we print this week indicates, been appointed Ford dealer for Galway city and county, so that anyone requiring early delivery of a Ford car should get into touch with him without delay.

Mr. Higgins informs us that over £1,000 worth of Ford spare parts will be stocked in his Galway garage.

Nursing fund

As a result of an auction of goods remaining over at Sandymount after the departure of the Belgian refugees from Galway, Ms. M. Burton Persse has forwarded £13 each to Nurse Young, of the Jubilee Nursing Association in Galway, and Nurse Campbell, of the Association for the Nursing of the sick poor in their own homes.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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