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Medical Reports and Prescriptions (1919-1950)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Artificially created sub-series of disassociated volumes relating to medical prescriptions and dietary schedules for patients admitted to the County Hospital.
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Volumes recording details of patients admitted to the County Hospital. Data recorded in each volume varies slightly but mainly includes:
Admission Number
Previous 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 immediately prior to admission
Name and address of nearest relative and degree of relationship
Employment or Calling
No of dependents
Disease or other cause rendering admission necessary
Who gave recommendation for admission
Date of discharge or death.
Attendance Registers (1935-41)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Volumes recording individuals entering or leaving the county hospital premises, mainly of medical and clerical staff arriving and leaving work, and of deliveries of various supplies to the hospital. Details recorded include:
Name
Business,
Time of entering
Time going out
Time returning
Admission and Discharge Books (1932-42)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
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.
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).
Indoor Admission and Discharge Books (1939-1954)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Volumes recording details for 'Form 32', Indoor Admission and Discharge Lists. Data recorded includes the following:
ADMISSIONS
Date of admission or birth
Name
Register No.
Weak and Infirm (M/F)
Aged and Infirm (M/F)
Children (3-8 years; 2-3 years; 1-2 years; infants under 1 year)
If born in the institution, name of mother
DISCHARGES
Date of discharge or death
Name
Register No.
Weak and Infirm (M/F)
Aged and Infirm (M/F)
Children (3-8 years; 2-3 years; 1-2 years; infants under 1 year)
Insert the word 'DIED' in case of death in Institution
Indoor Assistance Lists (1924-1948)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Volumes recording details for 'Form 33', Indoor Assistance Lists. Columns and sub-columns record the following data:
Adults: Married Couples (Males/Females); Other Males, Other Females
Children under 15: Of Parents Being Inmates (Legitimate/Illegitimate); Orphans or other children relieved without their parents
Lunatics, Insane Persons and Idiots: Males, Females, Children under 15
No in register
Name of Inmate
Age
Number of days in house each month (for 6 months)
Total (for half-year)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
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
Abstracts of Minutes (1936-1942)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
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.