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Medical Officer: Dr R. J. Walsh, Clara
Relieving Officer: John Ryan

Medical Officer: Dr J. Ridley, Tullamore
Relieving Officers: James Dunne, James Lynam, Stephen Lynam

Medical Officer: Dr Henry M. Clarke, Philipstown
Relieving Officer: James Dunne

Medical Officer: Dr Henry M. Clarke
Relieving Officer: James Dunne

Medical Officer: Dr Henry M. White
Relieving Officer: James Dunne

Medical Officer: Dr James Ridley, Tullamore
Relieving Officers: James Dunne, James Lynam, Stephen Lynam

Medical Officer: Dr J. Ridley, Tullamore
Relieving Officers: James Dunne, James Lynam, Stephen Lynam

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)

Abstracts of presentments granted and queries discharged and respited at the following sessions:

Summer Assizes, 1858
Lent Assizes, 1858
Lent Assizes, 1859
Summer Assizes, 1859
Summer Assizes 1860 (plus schedule of applications of the Summer Assizes 1860)
Lent Assizes, 1860
Lent Assizes 1861
Summer Assizes 1861
Lent Assizes 1862

Heavily annotated in parts by Henry Trench, particularly in relation to the barony of Clonlisk. Contains some enclosures including notice by John Hill, County Surveyor, entitled 'Instructions to Road Contractors with reference to Injuries to Public Roads and Nuisances', (Tullamore 1 December 1856).

Abstracts of presentments granted and queries respited and discharged at the following sessions:

Summer Assizes, 1862
Lent Assizes , 1863
Summer Assizes, 1863
Lent Assizes, 1864
Summer Assizes, 1864

Heavily annotated by Henry Trench in parts, particularly relating to the barony of Clonlisk.