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.
Includes:
Notices served on houses owners to carry out urgent repairs for their tenants; reports on the medical officer of health on overcrowding in houses; recommendations to send children with physical and mental defects to institutions, although Protestant institutions needed consent of parish priest; instances of diphtheria, scarletina, tuberculosis; and a report from Home Assistance Officer, Birr, concerning the level of destitution in the town.
Includes:
Correspondence with Department of Local Government relating to the burial grounds vested in the County Health District, and ensuing reports to the Board from the Chief Medical Officer of Health and the Secretary in relation to the registration of interments at the forty burial grounds in Offaly vested in the Board of Health.
Includes:
Decisions regarding the unsuitability of Arden burial ground for further burials from the county home due to overcrowding and arrangements be made to negotiate the acquisition of a piece of land adjoining the cemetery at Clonminch.
Includes:
Discussions on the a proposed cemetery at Clonminch for county home burials (11 April 1942); dance hall license applications.
798 entries recording admissions between April 1914 and September 1924. Deaths are recorded into the 1930s. Not indexed.