Background research File containing miscellaneous material which informed the production of the 'Cherry Orchard, 1953-2003' book and 50th anniversary events. The file includes the following: pages showing patient admission statistics from the 1970s; photocopied pages from reports and minute books of Cork Street Fever Hospital and Cherry Orchard Hospital; an article by Patricia Kelly of the Respiratory Unit entitled 'Now I Can Communicate'; a 1955 report on the management of diphtheria in Cherry Orchard Hospital; an article entitled 'The Development of Hospitals in Ireland: Historical Background'; a handwritten personal memoir on Cherry Orchard Hospital written by Gabrielle [surname unknown]; and a copy of the Dublin Fever Hospital Act of 1936. 1801-2003