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1916 Rising Golden Jubilee Commemorative Committee

Files relating to the plans by Offaly County Council to commemorate the 1916 Rising at 50 years. Includes file containing records of attendance of delegates at the committee meetings (1966); minute book recording resolutions agreed by the County Committee of the 1916 Jubilee Commemorations with Mr Nicholas Egan presiding. The Tullamore Committee, with All O'Brennan as chair, organised the main celebration with a parade on Easter Monday and the commissioning of a commemorative film (1966-1967); large correspondence file concerning the plans for the commemorations and particularly with the commissioning of the film (1966-1967); a file containing the scripts for the film and a recent remastered DVD copy of the film, the original of which is now with the Irish Film Archives; and an accounts book recording subscriptions to the 1916 Commemoration Fund (1966-1967).

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.

Papers of Helen Lamb.

Papers of Helen Lamb which remained at her residence, Woodfield House, and were inherited along with the property by her eldest son Henry Lamb. This material pertains to the history of the Cronhelm, Crosbie, and Tobias families.

Death Registers

Registers, slightly overlapping between the years 1932 and 1943, of deaths recorded as having taken place in the workhouse (1913-1921), the county home (1922-1947), and the hospitals (1932-1943) under the care of firstly Tullamore Poor Law Union and immediately succeeded by Offaly Board of Health and Public Assistance.

Castle Howard/ Cronebane

This series relates mainly to Sheelah Lefroy and her husband Langlois Lefroy.

Castle Howard was purchased by Langlois Lefroy circa 1924, who in that year would have been flush with the capital which his wife, Sheelah's marriage settlement, brought to them. . He sold Cronebane in 1954, on inheriting Carrigglas Manor, Longford, Co. Longford, from his elder brother, and died in 1957, when his widow, Sheelah, née Trench, moved back to Loughton to live with her unmarried sister, Thora. The last item in the box is a statement of account for 1957-1958 showing the value of the late Langlois Lefroy's and his wife, Sheelah's, investments under the provisions of her marriage settlement of 1924.

Lefroy, Langlois Massy

Papers of Keith Lamb.

Papers of Doctor Keith Lamb, inherited by his son Henry Lamb, and kept at Woodfield House.

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