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.
Application and report book for the relieving officer to enter applications for relief. This book records approximately 500 applications and contains details on the applicant's circumstances and subsequently the decision of the Board of Guardians to grant outdoor relief or to admit the applicant to the workhouse.
Also contains the first record of boarded-out children from Tullamore Union under the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1862.
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.
Legal agreements in the form of deeds and indentures relating to the Derenzy family’s title and interest in lands in the vicinity of Tinnycross, County Offaly. The earliest deed dating from 1630, records Sir Mathew de Renzi purchasing the townlands of Ballynashragh, Ballycosny, Tyrenehinan, Kilmore and Derry, all in the barony of Ballycowen, on behalf of his son Mathew DeRenzy, then at the bar in London. The vendor was Robert Branthwaite of London, who had been granted the land by letters patent of King James I. Further adjoining townlands of Rossnagouloge or Cappanure were purchased by Sir Mathew from Allen Jones in 1630, and the following year the adjacent townlands of Derrykilliagh and Kilbeg were purchased from Art McOwen O’Molloy. All were settled on his son, Mathew DeRenzy.
The bulk of the collection consists of numerous leases and mortgages raised against the land by Mathew DeRenzy between 1699 and 1703, while he lived at Cloghbemon in County Wexford. Later items in the collection relate to the sale of the lands to Reverend James Cox, Archdeacon of Ferns.
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