| Description | Typescript copy of 'Doing the Coombe in 1916' by Donough W MacNamara, originally published in the Journal of the Irish Medical Association, April 1966. The article is an account of Dr Macnamara's time as a medical student in the Coombe in 1916, it covers the staff in the hospital, the practice of midwifery, the conditions in the Dublin slums and the hospitial's parties. File also contains a copybook with a draft of the article.
A copy of the printed version of the article can be found in MFP/5/2/14 |