Includes:
Details of new appointments to the staff of the Board of Health on the abolition of the rural district councils; appointment of new chaplain to the institution following death of Fr Callary (27 Oct 1925, p21); and an outbreak of diphtheria in the county hospital (12 October 1925, p25).
Includes:
Approval from Commissioner O'Keeffe to erect statue of the Sacred Heart in the grounds of the hospital following request by Very Rev T. Mulvanny P.P. V. F, Tullamore, 11 Oct 1926, p1); and details of the closure of Birr District hospital on recommendation of inspectors for the Ministry for Local Government (p109).
Includes:
Complaint to the Board by D. E. Williams that tender conditions should be the same as for the Dublin Board of Assistance, where local firms are given preference if the contract is of equal value, and asks that this is applied when supplying the board with whiskey and tea, noting that they are very large employers in Tullamore.
Includes:
Report filed by Hoey & Denning Sols, who had attended the county home and taken statements from five women under the Illegitimate Children's Affiliation Orders Act 1930, so that putative fathers can be pursued by OBH for maintenance of their child in the county home.
Report on the state of repair of the roof of Barnaboy House which was fitted out for Dr Brady as the Kilcormac dispensary residence but Dr Brady complained that they have had to endure a winter of misery with a leak in every bedroom in the house. (p198-199)
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.