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  <dc:title>Cork Street Fever Hospital and Cherry Orchard Hospital Papers</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Records in this collection range in date from 1801 to 2005, spanning the entire existence of Cork Street Fever Hospital (1801-1953) and over five decades of its successor institution at Cherry Orchard. Many individual items and files range across time periods covered by both hospitals. 

Records in this collection include:

	- a run of minute books from 1801 to 1961 (with a gap of fourteen years between 1828 and 1842), 
	- annual reports (which often include medical reports), 
	- reports of Medical Superintendents, other hospital staff, and health authorities 
	- staff and student records
	- a small amount of correspondence and other administrative records
	- records relating to hospital finances and domestic supplies
	- Medical Superintendents' papers, dating mainly from Dr Christopher Joseph McSweeney's time in the position (1934-1953)
	- some patient records, including a short run of patient registers between 1924 and 1948
	- files relating to hospital events and the history of Cork Street Fever Hospital and Cherry Orchard Hospital
	- records relating to governing statutes of Cork Street Fever Hospital and legislation
	- records relating to the buildings and premises of Cork Street and Cherry Orchard, including architectural drawings of new buildings
	- records relating to Local Government Inquiries in 1937 and 1944.
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  <dc:date>1801-2005</dc:date>
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