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Includes:
Details of new appointments to the staff of the Board of Health on the abolition of the rural district councils; appointment of new chaplain to the institution following death of Fr Callary (27 Oct 1925, p21); and an outbreak of diphtheria in the county hospital (12 October 1925, p25).

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Approval from Commissioner O'Keeffe to erect statue of the Sacred Heart in the grounds of the hospital following request by Very Rev T. Mulvanny P.P. V. F, Tullamore, 11 Oct 1926, p1); and details of the closure of Birr District hospital on recommendation of inspectors for the Ministry for Local Government (p109).

Includes:
Complaint to the Board by D. E. Williams that tender conditions should be the same as for the Dublin Board of Assistance, where local firms are given preference if the contract is of equal value, and asks that this is applied when supplying the board with whiskey and tea, noting that they are very large employers in Tullamore.

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Report filed by Hoey & Denning Sols, who had attended the county home and taken statements from five women under the Illegitimate Children's Affiliation Orders Act 1930, so that putative fathers can be pursued by OBH for maintenance of their child in the county home.

Report on the state of repair of the roof of Barnaboy House which was fitted out for Dr Brady as the Kilcormac dispensary residence but Dr Brady complained that they have had to endure a winter of misery with a leak in every bedroom in the house. (p198-199)

Series of minutes books created on the enactment of the Local Government Temporary Provisions Act, 1923, recording executive decisions on a range of issues by Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance. These minutes follow directly from the Hospital and Homes Committee Minutes (Series 2).

Contains reports such as the Superintendent's Report from the general and fever hospitals; the Superintendent's Report from the County Home; Inspector's reports for boarded-out children; and reports from the district hospitals of Edenderry and Birr. Also includes 'Letters and Sanctions' from the Department of Local Government.

General matters arising include the appointment and remuneration of medical and clerical staff; financial issues relating to the sending of patients to extern hospitals; tenders for the supply of provisions to the hospitals; and orders relating to the dispensary districts throughout the county.

Decisions relating to the boarding-out of children are recorded intermittently in each minute book. Minutes also contain reports on conditions in the county home and in foster homes, on the health and welfare of boarded-out children, and on admissions of unmarried mothers to the county home and/or transfers to mother and baby homes in neighbouring counties. Contains sporadic lists (names and addresses) of boarded out-children, unmarried mothers, and foster parents.

Contains reports outlining the transition of Tullamore Workhouse into a county home. Also contains reports from sub-committees representing the other poor law unions (Edenderry and Birr) concerning the winding up of operations in those workhouses and the transfer of functions to Tullamore.

Significant redeployment of personnel is recorded such as hospital staff from the newly closed County Infirmary, and compensation claims from employees whose posts were defunct such as Clerk of the Union were also dealt with by the committee. Records decisions in relation to medical personnel based at various dispensaries throughout the county, and proposals relating to the treatment of TB patients. Also contains reports of new tenders granted for the supply of goods to the county home and some letters of protest about contracts being awarded to new suppliers in ' a ringing of the changes in certain interests.' (see p55, letter to the committee re Contract for the Supply of Bread, 28 October 1921.'

Includes regular matron's reports from the county home and hospital with medical details of patients. Also includes a report by the Visiting Committee (James O'Connor, Teresa Wyer and Mary K. Dunne) on the state of the county home following Amalgamation (p16, 23 July 1922).

Contains details of 'boarded-out' children such as their names and ages, and the names and addresses of their foster parents.