| Description | File contains printed and typed correspondence and memoranda, and photocopies of such, concerning the Mater Misericordiae Hospital constitution between the Superior General Mother M Gabriel, Carysfort, Blackrock, Dublin; John Corcoran, Chair of the Medical Council, 30 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, and Mater hospital staff; Sr M Eugene Nolan RSM, Úna Marron, Personal Assistant to the Deputy Director of Nursing, Mater Hospital, and Angela Bugler, Mercy Archives, Baggot Street, Dublin. Topics include the announcement of the introduction of a new administrative structure in the Mater Hospital; typed and printed copy of the first Constitution of the Mater Hospital titled ‘Constitutions of Hospital Administration’, contains 25 articles setting out the roles and functions of the Board of Management, Executive Council and Medical Council, enacted by Superior General Mother M Gabriel (28 Feb 1970; 8p); the Medical Councils recommendations as regards the new Constitution and administrative structure in the Mater; copies of correspondence between Sr M Eugene Nolan RSM and Úna Marron, Personal Assistant to the Deputy Director of Nursing, Mater Hospital and from Sr Nolan to Angela Bugler, Mercy Archives, Dublin on the history of the Constitution (15 June 2006); photocopies of various addresses given at the first Board Meeting including Archbishop John Charles McQuaid’s address to the first Board Meeting on 13 March 1970, Deputy Chairman’s Address to members of the Medical Council on 11 May 1970, of the Address to ‘the Sisters of the Hospital’ on 6th October 1970, and of the Address to the Nurses of the Hospital 1 December 1970; photocopy of a report on the Board of Managements efforts during its first 3 years examining administrative, medical, surgical, nursing, and technical services in the Mater, by Board of Management member Edward J Sheehy, dated 1973; photocopy of a typed and signed letter from Edward Gleeson, solicitor, Arthur O’Hagan and Son, Solicitor, 9 Harcourt Street Dublin to the Reverend Mother M Gabriel, Carysfort Park, Dublin dated 19 November 1970 enclosing a typed copy of a memorandum from a meeting of the Voluntary Hospitals Liaison Committee held on 17 November 1970 concerning the Health Act 1970 ([cJune 2006]; 3p); photocopies of reports from the Board of Management’s Annual General Meeting on 28 May 1971 including: an Address by Deputy Chairman to the AGM (6p), a Report by the Chairman of the Executive Council to the AGM (3p), a Report by the Chairman of the Medical Council to the AGM (8p); photocopy of a typed and signed letter from Gerard Smith (Gearoid MacGabhann),Secretary/ Manager, Mater Hospital to Reverend Mother M Gabriel, Carysfort Park, Dublin dated 20 April 1972 concerning details of the Medical Council’s proposed changes to the Constitution, and enclosing a copy of a letter from John Corcoran, Chair of the Medical Council to Dermot Flynn, Secretary, Board of Management regarding this, dated 28th Match 1972, and a copy of the proposals on headed notepaper titled ‘Mater Board Room’ ([cJune 2006]; 5p); and a printed and soft bound draft copy of a revised/updated hospital constitution (April 2005; 43p). |