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Includes:
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).

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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)

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Observations by Michael Scott, architect, regarding the future development of Arden Road and the responsibility of Offaly County Council to tightly control building development around the new hospital. (April 1938)

In relation to the burial ground at Arden, Rev J. Flynn reported that he and the Bishop have concluded that the existing cemetery at Clonminch could not provide for extra burials from the county home if Arden Burial ground was closed and alternatively suggests that a plot of land adjacent Clonminch burial ground be purchased for these interments. (April 1938)

Resolution to accept Lord Nuffield's offer to supply the hospital with an 'Iron Lung' (Jan 1939).

Ledgers containing Form 19 (Home Assistance Application and Report Book) on double folio spreads. These ledgers were to be kept by the Superintendent Assistance Officer for submission to the Board of Health.

Form 19 assigns a number to each registered applicant. It records names of applicants and contains the following categorising columns against each name:

Names of Applicants (Heads of families and other persons applying on their own account alone; Christian names of wives, and of children under 15 years dependent on them)

Age

If Adult (whether Single, Married, Widower or Widow); if Child (whether Orphan, Deserted, or Illegitimate).

Employment or Calling (By whom usually employed)

If Permanently Disabled (Nature of Permanent Disablement)

If Temporarily Disabled (state by what Sickness or Accident)

If Able-bodied, state cause of destitution

Present address (Where, with whom)

If in occupation of land, how much?

Present weekly earnings of self and family

Whether insured under the National Health or Unemployment Insurance Acts, or not - if not, state reasons

How much is applicant in receipt of from Insurance or Unemployment Benefits, Old Age Pensions, or other source;

Names of Relations liable by law and apparently able to assist Applicant

Other observations on the nature of the case

Date of application for assistance

Assistance ordered by the county board of health (if admitted to the county home; nature of assistance ordered; period for which ordered; date of the order; money value of assistance ordered each week; initials of chairman authorising; date of discharge or death)

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Report in relation to Barnaboy House, Kilcormac, the subject of frequent engineer's reports in previous years and its unsuitability as a dispensary doctor's residence:

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Recommendation of the establishment of a First Aid Service under the Local Security Force as a result of the break out of World War II, as it will be expected that the Board of Health will place its transport and personnel at its disposal. The Board further resolves to clean and disinfect the old infirmary building and lay on electric light and water in the event of an emergency (July 1940).

Correspondence relating to the delay in building works for the County Hospital featuring the contractors, Phoenix Building Works, and the architect, Michael Scott.

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Order that under the Emergency Powers Act, boards of health and public assistance to encourage the production of turf for persons who will be dependent on home assistance.

Contains report of Inspector Miss Murray of the Local Government Department on boarding-out of children which was critical of Offaly Board of Health (Aug 1941), and rebuttal reports from the Board (Dec 1941).