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Abstracts of Accounts (1922-42)

Half yearly series of accounts, with many gaps, for Offaly County Board of Health, incorporating Forms 49a, 49b and 50.

Form 49a contains revenue accounts describing the various charges on the County Council; average weekly costs; loan, receipt and expenditure account (including the cost for 'orphans and deserted children boarded-out'); loan accounts of the county board of health for the half-year; and a statement of balances at the close of the half-year.

Form 49b records the number and classification of persons assisted during the half year in terms of those admitted to the county home or hospitals, those receiving home assistance; persons with disabilities; and persons sent to extern hospitals.

Form 50 records the the names and salaries of the several officers, names and superannuation allowances of retired officers; names of intern officers (such as the Superintendent, assistant matron, nurses, cook, ambulance driver etc.), names of extern officers (such as the Chaplains, the Surgeon, the Medical Officer of Health, medical officers of the dispensary districts, dispensary midwives), and those working in the district hospitals.

Abstracts of Accounts and Secretary's Half-Yearly Statements (1926-42)

Half-yearly abstracts of accounts and secretary's statements incorporating Forms 32 and 33.

Form 32 comprises a revenue account and records charges and discharges in the various health districts across the county; details of receipts and expenditure; expenditure under tuberculosis acts; expenditure under labourers acts; loans receipts and expenditure account; a capital indebtedness account; and a statement of balances at the close of the half year.

Form 33 records the Secretary's statement in the form of a statement of cash assets and liabilities; a statement of insurances; names and salaries of officers who are required to give security; and a list of other officers, their posts and salaries.

Admission and Discharge Books (1932-42)

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.

Assistance Officers Expenditure Books (1933-39)

Ledgers containing Form 23 (Home Assistance List) and Form 24 (Assistance Officer's Expenditure Book showing amount paid weekly to each recipient) on double folio spreads.

Form 23 records names of patients assisted and contains the following categorising columns against each name:

Adult Males (Permanently disabled by old age or infirmity; Temporarily disabled by sickness or accident; Able bodied; Wife; Children under 15)

Adult Females (Married (deserted by husband/husband in jail); Unmarried; Widows; Children (legitimate/illegitimate)

Orphans and Children assisted without either parent

Lunatics, Insane Persons and Idiots (Males; Females; Children under 15)

Orphans and Deserted Children Boarded out

Form 24 records the names of persons assisted and the following categorising columns against each name:

Nature of Assistance (in Money/in Kind)

27 weekly columns for input of amount received.

A note at the footer of each page instructs that entries relating to assistance granted in cases of sudden and urgent necessity are to be made in red ink.

Attendance Registers (1935-41)

Volumes recording individuals entering or leaving the county hospital premises, mainly of medical and clerical staff arriving and leaving work, and of deliveries of various supplies to the hospital. Details recorded include:

Name

Business,

Time of entering

Time going out

Time returning

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