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Ambulance Account Books (1949-65)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Two indoor admission registers repurposed to record ambulance journeys in terms of destination, mileage and duration.
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.
Abstracts of Minutes (1936-1942)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
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.
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
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.
Sanitorium and TB Hospital Records (1912-28; 1949-57)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
Assistance Officers Expenditure Books (1933-39)
Part of Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
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.
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
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