Item 2 - Sanitary Sub-Officer's Diary

1 volume

Sanitary Sub-Officer's diary recording sanitary work performed for Edenderry No.1 Rural District Council (until 1925) and subsequently the Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance.

Each page contains pre-printed template for recording the following: number of orders or notices to abate nuisances, make connecting drains or perform other sanitary work; number of prosecutions for neglect of orders or notices; number of convictions for neglect of orders or notices; amount of fines imposed by orders of justices £; fines levied amounted to £; number of houses, yards and premises inspected; number of dwellings disinfected; disinfecting chamber used by persons; articles of clothing disinfected; clothing and bedding destroyed by order of the sanitary authority to the value of £.

Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance subsumed the functions of the rural district council from 1925 and the rural district councils were abolished. The sub-sanitary officer continued to use the register to record sanitary work completed in the Edenderry district until 1928 when the register was full.