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Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
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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

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