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Records of Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance
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Minute Book (1927-28)

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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Health to call on their local representative in the Dáil to have the Local Authorities Officers and Employees Act ,1926 repealed, to which O'Keeffe states: 'Rejected.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).

Minute Book (1928-1929)

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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.

Annual Reports

Annual Reports

Series of annual reports with many gaps, compiled by the County Medical Officer of Health. The first extant report from 1929 focuses mainly on statistics gathered from inspections of the the national schools in the county. Topics covered include dental health, ophthalmic clinics, tonsil and adenoid operations, enlarged cervical glands, 'mental defectives', tuberculosis, malnutrition, vaccination, skin diseases, defective speech, rheumatism, deformities, open-air education, co-operation of parents, sanitation and environment of schools,

Later annual reports refer to the health and sanitary conditions in the county as a whole while also incorporating the school medical service report. This broadened report contains general statistics of the county, vital statistics, water and sewage reports, housing, lists of midwives, notification of births, notifications of infectious disease, diptheria immunisation, sanitary administration, food and drug samples, venereal disease scheme, school meals free milk scheme, welfare of the blind, district nursing associations, meat and milk inspections, bovine T. B. and the annual report of the clinical tuberculosis officer.

Minute Book (1929-1930)

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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.

Minute Book (1929-30)

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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).

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