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Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance Subseries
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Abstracts of Accounts (1922-42)

Half yearly series of accounts, with many gaps, for Offaly County Board of Health, incorporating Forms 49a, 49b and 50.

Form 49a contains revenue accounts describing the various charges on the County Council; average weekly costs; loan, receipt and expenditure account (including the cost for 'orphans and deserted children boarded-out'); loan accounts of the county board of health for the half-year; and a statement of balances at the close of the half-year.

Form 49b records the number and classification of persons assisted during the half year in terms of those admitted to the county home or hospitals, those receiving home assistance; persons with disabilities; and persons sent to extern hospitals.

Form 50 records the the names and salaries of the several officers, names and superannuation allowances of retired officers; names of intern officers (such as the Superintendent, assistant matron, nurses, cook, ambulance driver etc.), names of extern officers (such as the Chaplains, the Surgeon, the Medical Officer of Health, medical officers of the dispensary districts, dispensary midwives), and those working in the district hospitals.

Abstracts of Accounts and Secretary's Half-Yearly Statements (1926-42)

Half-yearly abstracts of accounts and secretary's statements incorporating Forms 32 and 33.

Form 32 comprises a revenue account and records charges and discharges in the various health districts across the county; details of receipts and expenditure; expenditure under tuberculosis acts; expenditure under labourers acts; loans receipts and expenditure account; a capital indebtedness account; and a statement of balances at the close of the half year.

Form 33 records the Secretary's statement in the form of a statement of cash assets and liabilities; a statement of insurances; names and salaries of officers who are required to give security; and a list of other officers, their posts and salaries.

Admission and Discharge Books (1932-42)

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.

Assistance Officers Expenditure Books (1933-39)

Ledgers containing Form 23 (Home Assistance List) and Form 24 (Assistance Officer's Expenditure Book showing amount paid weekly to each recipient) on double folio spreads.

Form 23 records names of patients assisted and contains the following categorising columns against each name:

Adult Males (Permanently disabled by old age or infirmity; Temporarily disabled by sickness or accident; Able bodied; Wife; Children under 15)

Adult Females (Married (deserted by husband/husband in jail); Unmarried; Widows; Children (legitimate/illegitimate)

Orphans and Children assisted without either parent

Lunatics, Insane Persons and Idiots (Males; Females; Children under 15)

Orphans and Deserted Children Boarded out

Form 24 records the names of persons assisted and the following categorising columns against each name:

Nature of Assistance (in Money/in Kind)

27 weekly columns for input of amount received.

A note at the footer of each page instructs that entries relating to assistance granted in cases of sudden and urgent necessity are to be made in red ink.

Attendance Registers (1935-41)

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

Home Assistance Application and Report Books (1935-40)

Ledgers containing Form 19 (Home Assistance Application and Report Book) on double folio spreads. These ledgers were to be kept by the Superintendent Assistance Officer for submission to the Board of Health.

Form 19 assigns a number to each registered applicant. It records names of applicants and contains the following categorising columns against each name:

Names of Applicants (Heads of families and other persons applying on their own account alone; Christian names of wives, and of children under 15 years dependent on them)

Age

If Adult (whether Single, Married, Widower or Widow); if Child (whether Orphan, Deserted, or Illegitimate).

Employment or Calling (By whom usually employed)

If Permanently Disabled (Nature of Permanent Disablement)

If Temporarily Disabled (state by what Sickness or Accident)

If Able-bodied, state cause of destitution

Present address (Where, with whom)

If in occupation of land, how much?

Present weekly earnings of self and family

Whether insured under the National Health or Unemployment Insurance Acts, or not - if not, state reasons

How much is applicant in receipt of from Insurance or Unemployment Benefits, Old Age Pensions, or other source;

Names of Relations liable by law and apparently able to assist Applicant

Other observations on the nature of the case

Date of application for assistance

Assistance ordered by the county board of health (if admitted to the county home; nature of assistance ordered; period for which ordered; date of the order; money value of assistance ordered each week; initials of chairman authorising; date of discharge or death)

Hospital Registers and Statistical Records (1933-1957)

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).

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