A large and varied series of account books and financial statements, broadly reflecting the financial management of the Board of Health for the period 1922-1965. Includes abstracts of accounts, auditors statements, inventories of stock, travel expenses, and other records of daily cash transactions.
Volumes recording admissions and discharges to the county hospital. Details recorded include:
Name of patient
Residence
Occupation
Disease
Remarks
Age
Recommended by
Date of admission/discharge
Insurance details.
Volumes often enclose loose correspondence and reports on individual patients' treatment at external hospitals.
Series of annual reports with many gaps, compiled by the County Medical Officer of Health. The first extant report from 1929 focuses mainly on statistics gathered from inspections of the the national schools in the county. Topics covered include dental health, ophthalmic clinics, tonsil and adenoid operations, enlarged cervical glands, 'mental defectives', tuberculosis, malnutrition, vaccination, skin diseases, defective speech, rheumatism, deformities, open-air education, co-operation of parents, sanitation and environment of schools,
Later annual reports refer to the health and sanitary conditions in the county as a whole while also incorporating the school medical service report. This broadened report contains general statistics of the county, vital statistics, water and sewage reports, housing, lists of midwives, notification of births, notifications of infectious disease, diptheria immunisation, sanitary administration, food and drug samples, venereal disease scheme, school meals free milk scheme, welfare of the blind, district nursing associations, meat and milk inspections, bovine T. B. and the annual report of the clinical tuberculosis officer.
Several subseries of registers recording the admission and discharge of individuals to the county home in the period 1914-1957. The earliest register in this series was opened in 1914, and can also be viewed as the last register for the Tullamore Workhouse, which closed in 1921.
Several subseries of registers of admissions and discharges to the county hospital for the period 1932-1948, and also includes medical reports and prescriptions from the period 1919-1950.
Registers, slightly overlapping between the years 1932 and 1943, of deaths recorded as having taken place in the workhouse (1913-1921), the county home (1922-1947), and the hospitals (1932-1943) under the care of firstly Tullamore Poor Law Union and immediately succeeded by Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance.
Volumes recording combined data from admissions and discharges to and from the County Home. Details recorded include:
PARTICULARS OF PERSONS IN AND ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL
Register Number (consecutive for year)
Reference register No. of last year
Date when admitted to or born in the Hospital
Name of Person
Residence previous to admission
Age, Sex, Religious Denomination
If adult whether single, married or widow. if child, whether orphan, legitimate or illegitimate
Disease of sickness
General classification: Adults (male/Female), Children under 16
Classification of Cases: Medical, Surgical, Maternity, Mental, Chronic, Infectious, Tuberculosis, Other Persons (only maternity ticked in county home register)
Infectious Disease classification (left blank for county home register)
if born in the hospital, name of mother
Name and address of nearest relative,
Relationship,
Observations
Period in institution: Date of discharge or death, no of days for month, number of days for the year.
PARTICULARS OF PERSONS DISCHARGED FROM THE HOSPITAL
Date of discharge or death
Register Number name of Persons Discharged
Adults (men/women), Children under 16
Classification of cases: Medical, Surgical, Maternity, Mental, Chronic, Infectious, Tuberculosis, Other Persons (Only maternity ticked)
Infectious disease classification (left blank for county home register)
Insert 'Died' in case of death in hospital (used to record transfer to hospital, death, other institution, boarded out).
Volumes recording details for 'Form 32', Indoor Admission and Discharge Lists. Data recorded includes the following:
ADMISSIONS
Date of admission or birth
Name
Register No.
Weak and Infirm (M/F)
Aged and Infirm (M/F)
Children (3-8 years; 2-3 years; 1-2 years; infants under 1 year)
If born in the institution, name of mother
DISCHARGES
Date of discharge or death
Name
Register No.
Weak and Infirm (M/F)
Aged and Infirm (M/F)
Children (3-8 years; 2-3 years; 1-2 years; infants under 1 year)
Insert the word 'DIED' in case of death in Institution
Volumes recording details for 'Form 33', Indoor Assistance Lists. Columns and sub-columns record the following data:
Adults: Married Couples (Males/Females); Other Males, Other Females
Children under 15: Of Parents Being Inmates (Legitimate/Illegitimate); Orphans or other children relieved without their parents
Lunatics, Insane Persons and Idiots: Males, Females, Children under 15
No in register
Name of Inmate
Age
Number of days in house each month (for 6 months)
Total (for half-year)
Volumes recording details of residents admitted to the county home, the first of which dating from 1914, predates the establishment of the county home in 1921 and can therefore also be viewed as the last workhouse register for Tullamore Workhouse.
Data collected in this unbroken run of registers (Form 29) varied slightly from volume to volume but generally contained the following:
Admission number (and previous admission number if any)
Date of admission or birth
Name of inmate
Age, Sex
Description (Married, Single, etc.) or 'If adult whether single, married, widow or widower; if child, whether orphan, deserted, illegitimate or legitimate'
Religious denomination
Residence prior to admission
Name and address of nearest relative and description of relationship
Observations on condition of inmates when registered.
Employment or Calling
Number of dependents
Disease or other cause rendering admission necessary
Who gave recommendation for admission
Date of discharge or death