Jervis Street Hospital () was a hospital in

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. The site of the hospital became the

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History

Charitable infirmary, Cook Street

The hospital was founded by six Dublin surgeons, George Duany, Patrick Kelly, Nathaniel Handson, John Dowdall, Francis Donany and Peter Brenan, at their own expense, as the Charitable Infirmary in

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, in 1718.

Charitable infirmary, Inns Quay

The hospital moved to larger premises on King's Inn's Quay in 1728.

Jervis Street

In 1786, when the new

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were about to be erected on the quays, an agreement was reached with the

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to allow the hospital to move into his former mansion at 14 Jervis Street, which happened in October 1796. Some time afterwards alterations were made in the house to convert it for hospital purposes. The hospital occupied a central place in the most populous part of the city, being close to the markets, railway termini, goods stores and shipping.Collin, Chapter V In 1854 the nursing and internal management were placed under the control of the

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. The hospital was rebuilt and enlarged to a design by Charles Geoghegan in the 1880s. The hospital staged Araby, an oriental fête, in 1894, to raise much-needed funds. The name, Araby, would live as

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of one of the short stories in

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. In 1931, Langford House on nearby Mary Street was demolished and replaced with a nurses school associated with the hospital. After services were transferred to the Beaumont Hospital, the Jervis Street Hospital closed in November 1987. The site of the hospital was redeveloped in the early 1990s to create the

with only the facade of the original hospital remaining.

Notable people

* Robert Adams (1791–1875), elected surgeon in the 1820s. *

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(1802–1880), qualified as an MD in Edinburgh, and then appointed physician to the hospital, which had only six medical beds at the time. He was later elected Liberal MP for Dublin and was five times president of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland. *John King Forest (1804–1882), appointed surgeon to the hospital and also to the Theatre Royal, Dublin. *Stephen Myles MacSwiney, M.D. (died 1890), elected Fellow of the College of Physicians and member of the

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. His first professional appointment was Resident Medical Officer at St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin. He was afterwards a physician to Jervis Street Hospital. He filled with marked ability a chair of Medical jurisprudence and contributed papers to the

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, the Irish Hospital Gazette, and the

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.Fitzpatrick, 1900, Chapter XVII * Austin Meldon (1844–1904), senior surgeon at the hospital for many years. * Sir William Thompson (1861–1926), a physician in the hospital in the early part of the 20th century. He served as Registrar General for Ireland from 1909 to 1926. * Anne Young (1907–1976), founder of the first Irish school of general nursing.

References

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External links

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