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Reports on the repair of the bridge at Ballaghassen; new pump for Daingean; lighting of Portarlington; sewerage works at Chapel Rd, Edenderry; urgent repairs to pumps in Kinnitty; occurrence of diphtheria in Kilcormac; repairs to cottages in Edenderry; loan from Bank of Ireland to erect five cottages in Banagher; unsanitary condition of the well at Ballard, Charleville; cleaning of graveyards; occurrence of diphtheria in Edenderry; and limewashing of houses in Clara.
Includes: acknowledgments of periodic donations by Dr Moorhead of garden bench, tea, sugar, cakes and tobacco for 'inmates'of the county home; and improvements to the county hospital submitted by J Bruntz, engineer. (p104)
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).
Reports on repairs to Bogshane Pump; cleaning of sewers at Clara; quality of the water at Killeigh; compensation for criminal injury in respect of malicious destruction of thatched cottage and crops in Geashill; proposed sewerage schemes for Kilcormac; repairs to cottages after storm damage; and water supply for Ballyduff.
Also records a deputation from Birr Urban Council in reference to transferring the county home to Birr and keeping Birr workhouse in order – Commissioner O'Keefe replied that there was no intention of transferring the county home to Birr.
Refusal of tenants to give up their plots at Shanderry; notice to the public at Cloghan not to wash their motor cars art the public pump; appointment of veterinary sanitary inspectors; inspection of public pumps; new appointment of caretaker of Cappincur graveyard; the number of grave spaces allocated to non-Catholics at Kilrehan graveyard; complaints about the sewerage schemes at Daingean; and reports of expenses incurred through burying carcasses of donkeys, destruction of infected clothing, and disinfection of houses.
