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.
Volumes recording admissions and discharges to the county hospital. Details recorded include:
Name of patient
Residence
Occupation
Disease
Remarks
Age
Recommended by
Date of admission/discharge
Insurance details.
Volumes often enclose loose correspondence and reports on individual patients' treatment at external hospitals.
Register recording details of residents admitted to the Parsonstown Workhouse, the first of which dating from the opening of the workhouse on 2 April 1842 to June 1843. Includes 12 pages of index of name and register number.
Provides details of names of resident, sex, age, marital status, employment, religion, disability type, name of spouse, number of children, observations, electoral division and townland, date when admitted or born in workhouse, and date when discharged or died in workhouse.
Volumes recording details of residents admitted to the county home, the first of which dating from 1914, predates the establishment of the county home in 1921 and can therefore also be viewed as the last workhouse register for Tullamore Workhouse.
Data collected in this unbroken run of registers (Form 29) varied slightly from volume to volume but generally contained the following:
Admission number (and previous admission number if any)
Date of admission or birth
Name of inmate
Age, Sex
Description (Married, Single, etc.) or 'If adult whether single, married, widow or widower; if child, whether orphan, deserted, illegitimate or legitimate'
Religious denomination
Residence prior to admission
Name and address of nearest relative and description of relationship
Observations on condition of inmates when registered.
Employment or Calling
Number of dependents
Disease or other cause rendering admission necessary
Who gave recommendation for admission
Date of discharge or death
Drawing of Hut 26, C. Company at Rath Internment Camp with list of internees. Hut Leader listed as Denis Pender and the Quarter Master as [Patrick Delahunt]. Internees are listed from Number 1062 to 1091 as follows: 1062 Peter Traynor, 1063 John Lennon, 1064 John Ravenhill, 1065 Joe Lee, 1066 Henry Haughey, 1067 Michael Cooke, 1068 Vincent Neville, 1069 Thomas Finlay, 1070 Thomas Clarke, 1071 John Traynor, 1072 Michael Doyle, 1073 William Tobin, 1074 John Horan, 1075 M[ichael] Molloy, 1076 Denis Pender, 1077 John Buggle, 1078 Patrick Brady, 1079 Jerry Kelly, 1080 Patirck Quinn, 1081 Patrick [Delahunt], 1082 John Daly, 1083 Jerry Neville, 1084 Joseph Neville, 1086 Thomas McGivinchy, 1086 Jason McBrien, 1087 Patrick Costello, 1088 [Matthew] Conifray, 1089 Larry [Hayden], 1090 Thomas Shanley, and 1091 Bernard Maguire.
A large and varied series of account books and financial statements, broadly reflecting the financial management of the Board of Health for the period 1922-1965. Includes abstracts of accounts, auditors statements, inventories of stock, travel expenses, and other records of daily cash transactions.