Volumes of financial minutes books for Parsonstown Union, divided into two tables of financial and statistical minutes of pre-printed headings.
Table A records the sums extracted from the financial statement book of receipts of payments received from County Council, repayment of relief, rates of dispensary residences, farm account, sales and other receipts, transfer loan account.
Table B record the sums extracted from the financial statement book of expenditure of payments ordered for the sundry accounts, workhouse burials, district schools account, maintenance in extern institutions, emigration, law and other expense, medical charities, lunacy fees to medical officers, registration of births, deaths, and marriages of vaccinations, superannuation allowances, fees of teachers, expenses of local committees, repayment of loans, relieving officers' accounts, repayment of advances under seed supply acts, unpaid bills and expenditure out of loans.
Also includes summary and reconcilement of treasurers' account for month end.
Account ledger detailing the payments made by the union's Dispensary Districts. Payments are recorded under columns headed; date, name of officer, for, no. of paying order, medicine and medical appliances, rent of dispensary buildings, books, forms, stationery, printing and advertising, Medical Officers salaries and payments for temporary services, Dispensary Caretakers salaries for payments of temporary services, Midwives for payments of temporary services, vaccination expenses and other expenses.
Accounts from September 1916 to September 1925 are arranged by a monthly account of the payments of the Dispensary Districts of Banagher; Ferbane; Frankford; Birr and Killyon; Kinnitty; Riverstown.
Following the abolishment of the Union in 1925, and the transfer to the county councils' Board of Health, this ledger appears to have been repurposed to include payment accounts broadly across the county, and includes the accounts of Blueball/Killoughey; Daignean/Geashill; Tullamore; Cloneygowan and Portarlington; Kilcormac; Edenderry; Rhode; Rathangan; Roscrea; Shinrone; Moneygall, Tullamore County Hospital; Birr District Hospital; Edenderry District Hospital; Clara.
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Volume containing pre-printed questionnaire for manual answers to be entered at each inspection of the Visiting Committee to the Birr workhouse. The questionnaire comprises 16 questions on the condition of both the workhouse premises and the residents of the institution. The Visiting Committee answers either Yes or No to each question and there is space for observations, comments and sign-off by the clerk of the union and the chairperson of the Board of Guardians. Inspections begin as monthly occurrences in 1896 but are sporadic in frequency by 1920.
Following the closure of the Birr workhouse in August 1921, during the 'Amalgamation' of the workhouses in the county, the newly constituted Board of Health opened the County Home in Tullamore workhouse. In 1938, a new visiting committee was formed and Mary K. Dunne, a member of the Visiting Committee in the 1920s, and her colleague, A. F. E. McMichael, seem to have repurposed this volume to record the inspection visits to the county home (in Tullamore). Rather than answer the pre-printed questionnaire template, written reports have been attached to the page, or the observations space is used to write a report, and it is stamped and signed by the Board of Health. The use of this re-purposed volume by the Board of Health lasted until December 1939.
Includes some loose correspondence from the Local Government Board (1905; 1911)
