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Includes: order by Commissioner O'Keefe to reject a proposal by Westmeath Board of Health to call on their local representative in the Dáil to have the Local Authorities Officers and Employees Act ,1926 repealed, to which O'Keeffe states: 'Rejected. I consider the above-mentioned Act the most useful piece of legislation yet enacted.' (p39); copy report by Miss Alice Litster, inspector with the Department of Local Government, on boarded-out children in Offaly (p122-3); and the introduction of the school medical inspection scheme, (p165).
Notices served on houses owners to carry out urgent repairs for their tenants; reports on the medical officer of health on overcrowding in houses; recommendations to send children with physical and mental defects to institutions, although Protestant institutions needed consent of parish priest; instances of diphtheria, scarletina, tuberculosis; and a report from Home Assistance Officer, Birr, concerning the level of destitution in the town.
Reports on notifiable diseases; improvements to the cemeteries at Gallen and Kilrelehan; exhumation of bodies from Killintubber old graveyard; the unsanitary condition of Moneygall national school; Banagher cemetery; state of Birr workhouse graveyard; and a proposed new housing scheme for Offaly.
Includes: Copy of report on boarded-out children in the county carried out by Miss Alice Listster, inspector with the Department of Local Government, noting the conditions and well-being of each of the children boarded-out in the county (23 July 1929).
Copy of a summary of a sworn inquiry in relation to assessing what extra institutional accommodation is needed in the county. Having assessed the prospect of transferring the county home to the former Birr workhouse and converting Tullamore county home to a general and fever hospital, the inquiry found that a new general and surgical hospital be erected in Tullamore, separate to the fever hospital, and that the Birr and Edenderry district hospitals should continue operating (23 July 1929).
Reports on school medical inspections; fever hospital admissions; tonsil and adenoid operations; notification of births; and the influenza epidemic (1931).
Includes: Resolutions regarding proposed construction of TB hospital at Roscrea which was rejected by OBH and also regarding the construction of new general and surgical hospital at Tullamore.
Legal cases taken against putative fathers of illegitimate children in relation to maintenance under the Illegitimate Children's Affiliation Orders Act 1930.
