| Description | It is unclear when the Engineering sub-committee was founded. Minutes for it survive from June 1880, when it was appointed by the Visiting and General Purposes committee to 'take the management of the Fire arrangements all Boilers and Hot Water apparatus throughout the premises and all work connected with the Engineers department and the Management of Gas' (see GP B/2/10/2/1). However, the index to the Guardians' minutes (see GP B/2/12/1/1, below) refers to the sub-committee being appointed in October 1881. This may partially account for the gap between GP B/2/10/2/1 and GP B/2/10/2/2. The index also refers to the sub-committee being discharged in 1886, and its duties taken over by the House sub-committee, which was to have a team of engineering visitors (see GP B/2/3/3). It was eventually reformed in 1900 by the Workhouse Management committee, in lieu of the engineering visitors, and continued to be active up until the amalgamation of the unions in 1912.
The committee originally consisted of four Guardians, and its minutes contain details on all of those issues described above. |