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Minute Book (1935)

Includes:

Correspondence with Department of Local Government relating to the burial grounds vested in the County Health District, and ensuing reports to the Board from the Chief Medical Officer of Health and the Secretary in relation to the registration of interments at the forty burial grounds in Offaly vested in the Board of Health.

Minute Book (1935-1936)

Includes:

Details of Registrars for graveyards who were appointed to Leamonghan, Kilcorman, Drumcooley, Kilbride (Clara), Cappincur, Killoughey, Annaghharvey, Finglas, Lynally, Shane, Gallen & Killlourney, Ballina, Ballycon, Monsteroris, Croghan Hill, Ballinakill, Cullenwaine, Ballymacwilliam,and Fancroft. Order that these registrars be appointed, provided with the register, and that burial grounds with no appointments be re-advertised. (February 1936)

Also includes report of the school medical inspection in the following categories: uncleanliness, sub-nutrition, skin diseases, vaccinated, dental defects, defective vision, squint, other eye conditions, enlarged tonsils, other nose throat, enlarged cervical glands, defective speech, heart-organic, anaemia, diseases lungs, pulmonary TB, other TB, rickets, hernia, deformities, infectious diseases, other diseases, mental defectives.

Minute Book (1936-37)

Includes:
Report by Surgeon Meaghar on the condition of the maternity wards: 'The attention of the Board has been so often called to the maternity department that it seems hopeless to complain further. These maternity patients are being subjected to conditions that are beastly and barbarous and incredible, and their continuance after public attention has been drawn to them so often and so forcibly leaves no excuse in the mouth of any man responsible.'

Minute Book (1936-1937)

Includes:

Details of registrars for burial grounds appointed in Lusmagh, Garr, Ballykeane, Kilbride (Tullamore), Kilclonfert and Killaderry (Old), and Cloncrane; orders to acquire lands for housing in Edenderry, Banagher, Clara, Portarlington, Crinckle, Ferbane, Moneygall, Shinrone, Kilcormac, and Cloneygowan; and a public inquiry undertaken by OBHPA for the provision of water supplies in the towns of Daingean and Banagher.

Minute Book (1937)

Some crossover with Minute Book 17.

Includes:
Details on the proposed site of new Birr District Hospital at John's Place, Birr town.

Copy letter from Mother M. Aquin (Superintendent) of the Laundry at the County Home, stating that owing to the discharge of the unmarried mothers who have been assisting at the laundry and ironing work, she found it necessary to employ a woman for three days during the week, and also that the number of unmarried mothers has decreased from 27 to 13 during the past five years, owing to 'first offenders' being sent to Sean Ross Abbey and Manor House Castlepollard.' (May, 1937)

Correspondence and reports concerning architect Michael Scott and design of new hospital at Tullamore. Request by Sisters of Mercy for accommodation of six bedrooms, dining room, parlour, kitchen, storeroom, bathroom within the hospital building, due to their convent accommodation being inconvenient to the site of the hospital.

Minute Book (1937-38)

Much crossover with Minute Book 18.

Includes:
Resolution of thanks to the students of St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg and Clara Dramatic Class for providing entertainments to residents of the County Home. (Jan 1938)

In relation to the proposed sale of the County Infirmary, it was resolved that it could be converted so as to supply offices, boardroom and store-room for the Board of Health and Public Assistance, a poor law dispensary, and the Home Assistance Officers' Depot. Also resolved that Michael Scott, architect of the county hospital, be requested to draw up plans for same. (Feb 1938)

Observations on the proposed site of the ew fever hospital on land opposite the new county hospital on the Arden Road.

Resolution to disallow request from Superioress of Sean Ross Abbey to send to five year old boys to an industrial school and to endeavour to find suitable foster homes instead. (Feb 1938)

Observations by Home Assistance Officers in respect of three Edenderry roadworkers who, following a recent strike, refused to resume work alongside their colleagues and were thus debarred from unemployment assistance leaving their wives and children without subsistence.

Minutes of the Tuberculosis Committee (1921-1935)

Minutes of the Tuberculosis Committee (1921-1935)

Minutes of the Offaly Board of Health in relation to obligations under the Tuberculosis Acts, initially held under the auspices of the Hospital and Dispensaries Committee from 10 March 1921. From October 1925 to July 1928, Commissioner for Offaly, David O'Keefe, chaired the committee, now known as the Offaly Board of Health Tuberculosis Committee. On the departure of Commissioner O'Keefe, the committee reverted to the chairmanship of members of the county council presiding in rotation.

All meetings from inception in 1921 attended by the Tuberculosis Medical Officer (TMO). Minutes record patients recommended for institutional, sanitorium or dispensary treatment, and contains extensive lists of patients' names, addresses and type of treatment, and what level of financial assistance is required for each patient. Also contains some in-depth reports on individual cases, including patients who refuse sanitorium treatment. Includes statistical reports from the TMO reporting number of cases attending at dispensaries; number of new cases; number of deaths reported; number of patients visited at home by TMO; number of visits by the Birr nurse; the number in Birr T.B. Hospital; the number in County Hospital (Tullamore); and the number of patients in extern hospitals such as Newcastle and Peamount. Includes reports from the hospitals, both in Offaly and extern hospitals such as Peamount, Newcastle, Mercer's, Coole, Royal National Hospital for Consumption, City of Dublin Hospital, and Cappagh Children's Hospital.

Initial years of minutes (1921-1923) reflect the transitional period following 'Amalgamation' when tubercular patients previously resident in the various poor law union workhouses, were now centralised with 'chronic' destitute cases residing in the Tuberculosis Hospital in Birr, at a significant cost to the Tuberculosis Committee. Minutes also contain administrative reports for the hospitals in relation to employment of personnel and maintenance of buildings; claims to British Ministry of Pensions in respect of treatment of ex-British Army service men and their dependents; and decisions in relation to the transfer of the T.B. Hospital from Birr to Roscrea Sanitorium, and the subsequent closure of the T.B. hospital at Birr (1931).

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