File of correspondence between Banagher Parish Council, Offaly County Board of Health and Department of Local Government and Public Health, in relation to the installation of a sewerage scheme at Banagher and the provision of wartime employment.
Includes Ms list of 23rd January 1941 of persons prepared to connect with the water mains. With copy of Sanitary Sub-Officers Report.
Includes also ms resolution of Banagher parish Council stating that the sanitation in Banagher requires immediate attention.
Letter from Secretary of Offaly Board of Health to the Secretary of Banagher Parish Council stating that the Electricity Supply Board is proposing to curtail public lighting.
Typed letter from Secretary of Department of Agriculture regarding the refusal of the Offaly Board of Health to re-let some land, which was let the previous season.
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.
Parsonstown (Birr) Poor Law UnionFile of correspondence between Banagher Parish Council, Offaly County Board of Health and Offaly County Council in relation to fencing off the Cowpark at Banagher to permit, tillage cultivation. Includes ms letter of 18th July 1941 making application for each of the five acres set aside by the Board of Health for tillage.
Typed letter from J. F. Mahon, Secretary, Offaly County Board to the secretary of Banagher Parish Council noting, that allotments provided by the Board of Health should not exceed one quarter of an acre.
Typed memoranda from Offaly County board of Health with regard to the boards role in ensuring that as much foodstuff as possible is home produced. Requests that Parish Councils ascertain the number of labourers who desire to cultivate allotments and the amount of land available.
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)
Letter of 26th January 1942 from District Engineer, ESB stating that the restriction of public lighting in Banagher will go ahead 'assuming that Offaly County Board of Health have no objection to this course'.
Copy letter to Secretary of Offaly County Board of Health noting that there are twenty-eight applicants for land and that there was no forthcoming information as to any available land about town.