| Description | Notebook containing manuscript minutes of a committee established following a conference in the Mansion House, Dublin, 19 March 1918 organised by Cumannn na dTeachtaire to 'combat the spread of venereal disease'. The committee took the name Cóiste Cosanta na hÉireann in May 1918.
The minutes record the development of the committees ideas towards the establishment of an infant's hospital, the struggles to find a suitable site and funding, the appointment of the hospital board and staff and the opening of the hospital in May 1919.
Included with the minute book are copies of two circular letters sent out to raise funds for the hospital, dated 12 and 15 May 1919, one signed by the secretary Madeleine ffrench-Mullen. Also a newspaper clipping reporting unfavourably on the plan to establish a new infant hospital in Dublin. |