Reference NumberPDH/5/2/4
TitleBook of Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital
Date1903
Creator NameWatson, Edward John MaCartney, 1872-1947
Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital
DescriptionLeather bound volume with metal clasp containing details of hospital and its staff, inscription reads 'presented in 1903 to the staff by Doctor Edward J M Watson to keep a record of those who had acted as resident students'. Volume contains notes on Patrick Dun and the hospital, the Dublin Hospitals Rugby Football cup, maps of the hospital layout and names or signatures of all students and staff from 1864 to 1986. With these names are sometime additional details of their future career, especially in war time, with occasional newspaper cuttings. Volume also contains an account of the hospital's roll in the 1916 rising [possibly from an annual report], the 1914-1918 roll of honor and two photographs, one of Dr John Lait and one of Mary Bennett, hospital cook for 40 years before her retirement in 1941.
Extent500 pages
TermEaster Rising Ireland (1916)
First World War (1914-1918)
Photographs
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/55Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital; 1800-19861800-1986
DS/UK/265Watson; Edward John Macartney (1872-1947); radiologist1872-1947
DS/UK/266Lait; John (1895-1967); physician1895-1967
DS/UK/267Bennett; Mary (d.1941); hospital cookd.1941
DS/UK/275Dublin Hospitals Rugby Cup; 1881-1881-
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