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4840 entries recording admissions between September 1924 and September 1943. Deaths and discharges recorded in 1944 and 1945. Index of surnames precedes register.

Volume recording details for 'Form 31', Record of Deaths. Details recorded include:

No. in Register

Date of Death

Registry of Death

Cause of Death

Name

Male or female

Age

Date of last admission to this institution

If not buried at sole cost of Friends, state whether supplied with Shroud/Coffin/Grave

Observations

Also includes some loose handwritten notes on supplies of coffins

Register recording patients names and the articles of food or stimulants allowed on a daily basis during admission in the hospital. The pre-printed template stipulates that 'All entries must be written by the Medical Officer himself.' The MO certifies by signing a declaration on each page. The items specified include: Beef, Bread, Butter, Eggs, Milk, Mutton chops, Tea, Sugar, Rice, Potatoes. The columns recording stimulants such as Brandy, Porter, Whiskey, Wine etc are repurposed for food articles such as Jam, Fish, Cocoa, and Chicken.

Offaly County Home and Hospital's daily issue books recording details for Form 42. Each folio records number of articles issued to residents on a daily basis under the headings of 'Provisions' (e.g. food and alcohol), 'Fuel and Light', and 'Washing Materials' (e.g. soap).

Departments receiving issue are divided into:
'G. Hospital (General)'
'Fever Hospital'
'M. Home' (male county home)
'F. Home' (female county home)
'Nursery' and
'Officers'.

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.

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.