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Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Midwifery casebook, Dublin Lying-In Hospital


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1538 S95

Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Title: Midwifery casebook, Dublin Lying-In Hospital

Date(s): 1781-1786

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 vol.

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

In 1745 Bartholomew Mosse, surgeon and man-midwife, founded the original Dublin Lying-In Hospital as a maternity training hospital, the first of its kind. In 1757 the institution moved to a different location where it became 'The New Lying-In Hospital'. This is the hospital complex that is referred to today as simply 'The Rotunda'.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Midwifery casebook, Aug 1781-Mar 1786, of 'cases extraord[inar]y' in the Lying in Hospital, Dublin and in private practice domiciliary visits 'chiefly among the poor', May 1782-October 1785. Indexed by symptoms.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single volume.

Conditions governing access:

Conditions governing reproduction:

Physical characteristics:

Bound in a volume.

Finding aids:

No additional finding aids.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Presented to the College in July 1957 by Dr G P Charlewood, Johannesburg.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from the Library to the College Archives in September 2007.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Clinical medicine | Medical sciences
Hospitals | Health services
Midwifery | Nursing | Medical sciences
Medical institutions

Personal names

Corporate names
Rotunda Hospital x Dublin Lying-In Hospital x New Lying-In Hospital

Places
Dublin | Ireland | Western Europe | Europe