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Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance Series
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Accounts and Financial Statements

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.

Annual Reports

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.

County Home Records

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.

Death Registers

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.

Fever Hospital Records

Registers recording admissions and discharges to the fever hospital. Details recorded include:

Numner in regsiter

Previous number if any

Name

Age, Sex

Description (Married/Single/Widowed/Orphaned/Legitimate or Illegitimate)

Religious Denomination

Residence immediately prior to admission

Name and address of nearest relative and degree of relationship

Employment of Calling

Number of dependents

Disease or other cause rendering admission necessary

Who gave recommendation for admission

Date of discharge or death

Hospital and Homes Committee

Minutes of meetings of the Hospital and Homes Committee, a transitional committee formed following 'Amalgamation' when the workhouses in the county were closed and the boards of guardians of the poor law unions transferred their functions to the county council under a proposed county board of health.

Public Health

This series has been further divided in to two sub-series representing the categories of records created for the administration of public health.

Subseries 1: Minute Books (1925-1942)
Subseries 2: Abstracts of Minutes (1936-1942)