Ambulance Account Book (1949-1965)
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- 1949-1965
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
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Ambulance Account Book (1949-1965)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Ambulance Account Books (1949-65)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Two indoor admission registers repurposed to record ambulance journeys in terms of destination, mileage and duration.
Accounts and Financial Statements
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
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.
Ambulance Account Book (1953-1964)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
This is a large set of records which broadly reflects the evolution of local authority health and welfare provision in Offaly. It contains minutes of committees established to oversee public health and public assistance, as well as administrative records detailing the admission and discharge of individuals into the County Home or the County Hospital. While the bulk of the records derived from the County Board of Health, there are a few outlying records from 1912-21 relating to transitional periods in the health service, or where registers were taken over from the preceding health system and incorporated into the new Board of Health. Likewise some county home and county hospital administrative records, particularly admission and discharge registers and financial ledgers which were kept by record-creators in an unbroken series, post-date the County Board of Health's executive function which ceased in 1942.
RECORDS RELATING TO MOTHER AND BABY HOMES AND BOARDED-OUT CHILDREN:
The main series of records which record unmarried mothers and/or decisions relating to the boarding-out of children are to be found in the Public Assistance Minute Books (Series 3) and the Admissions and Discharge registers for the County Home (Series 5).
While Offaly did not have a designated ‘Mother and Baby Home,’ the records show that unmarried mothers were regularly admitted to the County Home to give birth until the late 1940s, many staying for a significant period of time in the home with their children. In some instances, both mother and child were transferred from the home after the birth to other institutions such as Sean Ross Abbey, Roscrea, Co Tipperary, or Manor Home, Castlepollard, Co Westmeath.
From the late 1940s, it appears that unmarried mothers were either admitted directly to institutions in other counties (these records are held by other bodies) or transferred from the County Home to mother and baby homes outside Offaly before or after giving birth (these instances, which are infrequent from the late 1940s are recorded in the county home registers in this collection). Children entered in the registers of the county home are recorded as having been born there, or have been transferred into the county home from another institution before being 'placed' or 'boarded-out' in Offaly. It is possible to trace children by surname, noting the limitations of the records in terms of completeness and the date span.
In general terms and from an overview of the records, the incidence of names of unmarried mothers and their children decreases significantly over time. This is most likely due to unmarried mothers from Offaly entering institutions outside the county before the birth of their children. By the 1950s, there are only sporadic instances of births to unmarried mothers and of 'boarded-out' children recorded in the county home registers. This particular record series ends in 1957.
Offaly County Council
Hospital and Home Day Books (1940-62)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Registers recording invoices received and value of goods delivered or work done under the following heads of service: Provisions, Fuel & Light, Washing Materials, Clothing and Bedding, Hardware and Furniture, Farm Expenses, Institutional Burials, and Work Done.
County Hospital and Home Day Book (1956-1962)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Hospital Registers and Statistical Records (1933-1957)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Volumes recording combined data from admissions and discharges to and from the County Home. Details recorded include:
PARTICULARS OF PERSONS IN AND ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL
Register Number (consecutive for year)
Reference register No. of last year
Date when admitted to or born in the Hospital
Name of Person
Residence previous to admission
Age, Sex, Religious Denomination
If adult whether single, married or widow. if child, whether orphan, legitimate or illegitimate
Disease of sickness
General classification: Adults (male/Female), Children under 16
Classification of Cases: Medical, Surgical, Maternity, Mental, Chronic, Infectious, Tuberculosis, Other Persons (only maternity ticked in county home register)
Infectious Disease classification (left blank for county home register)
if born in the hospital, name of mother
Name and address of nearest relative,
Relationship,
Observations
Period in institution: Date of discharge or death, no of days for month, number of days for the year.
PARTICULARS OF PERSONS DISCHARGED FROM THE HOSPITAL
Date of discharge or death
Register Number name of Persons Discharged
Adults (men/women), Children under 16
Classification of cases: Medical, Surgical, Maternity, Mental, Chronic, Infectious, Tuberculosis, Other Persons (Only maternity ticked)
Infectious disease classification (left blank for county home register)
Insert 'Died' in case of death in hospital (used to record transfer to hospital, death, other institution, boarded out).
Combined Hospital Register and Statistical Record (1956-1957)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Indoor Register of St. Vincent's T.B. Hospital (1949-1957)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Volume of admissions and discharges to St. Vincent's T.B. Hospital, Tullamore, indexed alphabetically by surname. Admission details recorded include the date of admission; name and address of patient; age, sex, religion and marital status of patient; occupation (listed in the 'If born in hospital, name of mother' column); name and address of nearest relative; the amount of days in any given month spent in the hospital; and the date of discharge. Discharge columns also record if death occured during hospital treatment.