Hi Margaret
I wonder if it would be possible to get hospital records?
ROTUNDA HOSPITAL
Parnell Street, Dublin 1. Tel 01 8730700. Fax 01 8726523.
The Rotunda Hospital is more than 250 years old, founded in 1745 by Dr Bartholomew Mosse. During the course of his work as a surgeon, Mosse became deeply concerned at the plight of expectant mothers he came across in the Dublin Liberties. Many of these women lived in squalid conditions and all too often succumbed to starvation and disease and died along with their infants. Mosse, determined to do something about this social scandal, invited citizens of wealth to join him in raising charitable funds to buy premises for a 'Lying-In' Hospital. His appeal met with a generous response and the hospital, which was the first of its kind in Europe, opened on March 15th, 1745. The success of the first Lying-In hospital was so obvious that Mosse decided to plan for a larger, purpose built hospital. The current site, at the top of Dublin's main thoroughfare, O'Connell Street. was secured and the first baby was born in the new 'Lying-In' hospital on 8th December 1757. About 6,000 births and 3,000 operations take place in the Rotunda every year, with a further 50,000 outpatient visits. Five hundred staff are employed by the Hospital offering a round-the-clock service in obstetrics , gynaecology and paediatrics. In 1993 a new wing with nine delivery suites and two new operating theatres was opened. Staff Listings and further information is published annually in the IRISH MEDICAL DIRECTORY
See the Hospital Records database - search Rotunda Hospital Dublin
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/search.asp
