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WLH - Westmoreland Lock Hospital

Reference Number	WLH
Title	Westmoreland Lock Hospital
Date	1792-1922
Creator Name	Westmoreland Lock Hospital
Description	Papers of the Westmoreland Lock Hospital, from its foundation in 1792 to the beginning of the twentieth century. Records include administrative, financial and patient records created by the hospital.
Extent	6 boxes and 8 outsized volumes
Arrangement	Records have been divided into four sections by record type; Administrative Papers, Financial Papers, Chaplaincy Records and Patient Records. Within each section further subdivisions have been made as necessary and documents are arranged chronologically.
History	In 1755 George Doyle established a hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases (sexually transmitted diseases) on Rainsfort Street in Dublin, after several changes in location the hospital moved to Townsend Street in 1792 when it was renamed the Westmoreland in honour of the Lord Lieutenant at the time. Originally opening with 270 beds, the number was reduced to less than 200. In 1819 men were no longer admitted to the hospital, receiving treatment at Sir Patrick Dun's or Dr Steevens' Hospital instead. The hospital continued to treat women with sexually transmitted diseases, may of whom were prostitutes, partly a result of the large British garrisons in Dublin in the nineteenth century. In 1946 the hospital was renames St Margaret of Cortona, but ten years later the hospital closed as is services were no longer needed and the building had fallen into a state of disrepair.
Acquisition	The records of the Westmoreland Lock Hospital were donated to the archive on the closure of the hospital, it seems that the majority of twentieth century records were destroyed.
Digital Collections	View online in our digital collections
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Term	Hospital administration
	Sexually transmitted diseases
	Patient registers
Related Material	The papers of Thomas Percy Claude Kirkpatrick contain some papers relating to the Westmoreland Lock Hospital in the early decades of the twentieth century when he was physician to the hospital.

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates
DS/UK/1784	Westmoreland Lock Hospital; 1792-1954	1792-1954

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