Sanitorium and TB Hospital Records (1912-28; 1949-57)
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Sanitorium and TB Hospital Records (1912-28; 1949-57)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Series of minutes books created on the enactment of the Local Government Temporary Provisions Act, 1923, recording executive decisions on a range of issues by Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance. These minutes follow directly from the Hospital and Homes Committee Minutes (Series 2).
Contains reports such as the Superintendent's Report from the general and fever hospitals; the Superintendent's Report from the County Home; Inspector's reports for boarded-out children; and reports from the district hospitals of Edenderry and Birr. Also includes 'Letters and Sanctions' from the Department of Local Government.
General matters arising include the appointment and remuneration of medical and clerical staff; financial issues relating to the sending of patients to extern hospitals; tenders for the supply of provisions to the hospitals; and orders relating to the dispensary districts throughout the county.
Decisions relating to the boarding-out of children are recorded intermittently in each minute book. Minutes also contain reports on conditions in the county home and in foster homes, on the health and welfare of boarded-out children, and on admissions of unmarried mothers to the county home and/or transfers to mother and baby homes in neighbouring counties. Contains sporadic lists (names and addresses) of boarded out-children, unmarried mothers, and foster parents.
Home Assistance Application and Report Books (1935-40)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Ledgers containing Form 19 (Home Assistance Application and Report Book) on double folio spreads. These ledgers were to be kept by the Superintendent Assistance Officer for submission to the Board of Health.
Form 19 assigns a number to each registered applicant. It records names of applicants and contains the following categorising columns against each name:
Names of Applicants (Heads of families and other persons applying on their own account alone; Christian names of wives, and of children under 15 years dependent on them)
Age
If Adult (whether Single, Married, Widower or Widow); if Child (whether Orphan, Deserted, or Illegitimate).
Employment or Calling (By whom usually employed)
If Permanently Disabled (Nature of Permanent Disablement)
If Temporarily Disabled (state by what Sickness or Accident)
If Able-bodied, state cause of destitution
Present address (Where, with whom)
If in occupation of land, how much?
Present weekly earnings of self and family
Whether insured under the National Health or Unemployment Insurance Acts, or not - if not, state reasons
How much is applicant in receipt of from Insurance or Unemployment Benefits, Old Age Pensions, or other source;
Names of Relations liable by law and apparently able to assist Applicant
Other observations on the nature of the case
Date of application for assistance
Assistance ordered by the county board of health (if admitted to the county home; nature of assistance ordered; period for which ordered; date of the order; money value of assistance ordered each week; initials of chairman authorising; date of discharge or death)
Assistance Officers Expenditure Books (1933-39)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
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.
Old Age Pension Registers (1941-1953)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Volumes recording details of old age pension pensions to named recipients. Each folio records 27 weeks of payment and also records death of recipients. While the volumes contain alphabetically indexed folios, names were not recorded in this format, rather they were entered chronologically from the date of first payment.
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Minutes of the proceedings of the Offaly Board of Health acting as the Sanitary Authority, recording executive decisions on matters of public health such as installation of sewerage schemes; installation of water pumps; condition of housing; registration of dairymen; reports of infectious diseases such as diphtheria, tuberculosis etc; vaccination defaulters; and other matters formerly overseen by rural district councils. Also includes reports from the medical officers of health in each district.
Abstracts of Minutes (1936-1942)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Indoor Assistance Lists (1924-1948)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
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)
Hospital Registers and Statistical Records (1933-1957)
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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).
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
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