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Date(s)
- January 1937-December 1937 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
c. 200pp
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Archival history
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Some crossover with Minute Book 17.
Includes:
Details on the proposed site of new Birr District Hospital at John's Place, Birr town.
Copy letter from Mother M. Aquin (Superintendent) of the Laundry at the County Home, stating that owing to the discharge of the unmarried mothers who have been assisting at the laundry and ironing work, she found it necessary to employ a woman for three days during the week, and also that the number of unmarried mothers has decreased from 27 to 13 during the past five years, owing to 'first offenders' being sent to Sean Ross Abbey and Manor House Castlepollard.' (May, 1937)
Correspondence and reports concerning architect Michael Scott and design of new hospital at Tullamore. Request by Sisters of Mercy for accommodation of six bedrooms, dining room, parlour, kitchen, storeroom, bathroom within the hospital building, due to their convent accommodation being inconvenient to the site of the hospital.