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Register of reports of sanitary officers in Sub-Officer's District of Edenderry No.1. Date recorded include the date of the report, the name of the sanitary officer and the name of the District; the name and address of the owner/occupier; the nature or cause of complaint; the sanitary officer's recommendation; the order of the sanitary board; a description of steps taken to remove cause of complaint and a description of the result of the order.
Reports cover public health disease controls on infectious diseases such as diptheria, scarletina and typhoid; sanitation of public water supply; sanitary state of school buildings; and other threats to public health.
Volume containing details of prescriptions issued for patients of the T.B. Hospital by Dr Denis J. O'Regan, Medical Officer. Stamped in places by dispensing chemists such as Sheil Chemists, Tullamore and Maurice J. Bunyan, Medical Hall, Birr.
Rentals are arranged by townland and then by tenant's name, recording observations, charges, arrears and gale day payments. Arranged alphabetically by townland from Amore to Tullamore.
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.