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Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
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Public Health

This series has been further divided in to two sub-series representing the categories of records created for the administration of public health.

Subseries 1: Minute Books (1925-1942)
Subseries 2: Abstracts of Minutes (1936-1942)

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.

Minute Book (1941-42)

Includes:
Order that under the Emergency Powers Act, boards of health and public assistance to encourage the production of turf for persons who will be dependent on home assistance.

Contains report of Inspector Miss Murray of the Local Government Department on boarding-out of children which was critical of Offaly Board of Health (Aug 1941), and rebuttal reports from the Board (Dec 1941).

Minute Books (1925-1942)

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.

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