| Description | Bound volume containing annual reports of the Dublin Fever Hospital Board with attached medical reports.
The volume consists of medical reports for every year ending 31 December 1937-1948, and reports of the Chairman for the years ending 31 December 1937-1944 and the years 1948-1949.
Prominent topics evident in the reports include changes in administration occurring due to the change from voluntary to municipal control, changes to hospital buildings (such as the vacation of the auxiliary hospital at Ringsend, development works for a new hospital in Clondalkin, and work undertaken as Air Raid Precaution measures), changes in staffing and membership of the Board, the dissolution of the Board in 1945 and its reinstatement in 1948, hospital finances, and admissions and treatment of patients with scarlet fever, gastro-enteritis, poliomyelitis, tuberculous meningitis, and diphtheria.
Some additional material is attached to the medical reports, including:
(a) Reports on groups of interesting cases, written by WJ Roche, Assistant Medical Officer;
(b) Articles and reports written by Christopher Joseph McSweeney, Medical Superintendent, on 'The Bragg-Paul Pulsator in Treatment of Respiratory Paralysis' (reprinted from the British Medical Journal, June 1938), 'The Treatment of Diphtheria' (reprinted from The Practitioner, June 1939), 'Treatment of Lobar Pneumonia and Bronchopneumonia' (reprinted from The Lancet, July 1940), 'Tentative Conclusions re Penicillin in Diphtheria', and 'Sulphathiazole and Penicillin in Typhoid Fever. Report of Six Cases' (reprinted from The Lancet, July 1946);
(c) An article written by JG Tynan, Assistant Medical Officer, on 'The Manzullo Test in the Diagnosis of Diphtheria' (reprinted from The Irish Journal of Medical Science, November 1939); and
(d) A report on the treatment of gastro-enteritis, written by Dr Fergus Colm O'Herlihy, Assistant Medical Superintendent.
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