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.
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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.
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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