| Reference Number | CSFH/1/2/1/1 |
| Title | Annual reports of Cork Street Fever Hospital |
| Date | 1801-1818 |
| Creator Name | Cork Street Fever Hospital |
| Description | Bound volume containing annual reports and related documentation. The following reports are included in the volume:
1. An account of the initial meeting of the provisional hospital Committee, and the resolutions adopted by those present (1801)
2. A report of the Managing Committee from its commencement to 4 January 1805,
3. Annual reports for the Managing Committee for the years ending 4 January 1806-1818,
4. Medical reports attached to the reports of the Managing Committee written by Francis Barker, William Stoker, George Hagan, and Richard Gamble.
Note that the annual report for the year ending 4 January 1815 also covers the year ending 4 January 1814.
Other documents in the volume include:
(a) a list of donations and annual subscriptions (1801),
(b) heads of a plan for the extermination of infectious fevers, published by the Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor (1802),
(c) a short letter to the Trustees of the Intended Fever Hospital from Maurice Morgan, MD,
(d) original resolutions of the subscribers for the erection of a House of Recovery or Fever Hospital (1801),
(e) Bye-Laws concluded upon by the Managing Committee for conducting the Hospital, passed at a Meeting held in their Boardroom on 13 April 1809,
(f) a printed notice with advice to the inhabitants of houses from which a patient had been removed to Cork Street Fever Hospital (1812),
(g) a letter to the Managing Committee from the permanent physicians in the treatment of fever by bloodletting,
(h) General Principles upon which the hospital is founded, expressed in resolutions passed at a meeting held at the Royal Exchange, Dublin, on 28 October 1801 (attached to the 1817 report), and
(i) meteorological tables for the year 1816.
A wide range of topics are evident in the reports, including efforts to establish the hospital, financial matters, the outbreak of fever in 1812, the need for preventative measures to halt the spread of disease, efforts to clean the dwelling houses of the poor, and expansions of the hospital accommodation, catchment areas and admissions of patients.
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| Extent | c. 600 pages |
| Term | Typhus |
| Hospital administration |
| Smallpox |
| Measles |
| Dysentery |
| Fever |
| Hospital management |
| Infectious diseases |
| Patient care |
| Hospital finances |
| Hospital staff |
| Annual Report |
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| DS/UK/2477 | Allen; Edward (fl. late eighteenth century-mid nineteenth century); Member of the Managing Committee of Cork Street Fever Hospital, philanthropist and co-founder of a Dublin Institute with a
library and lecture room at Sackville Street. | fl. late eighteenth century-mid nineteenth century |
| DS/UK/2478 | Barrington; John (1764-1824); Chandler, soap-boiler, and Trustee of Cork Street Fever Hospital | 1764-1824 |
| DS/UK/2428 | Bewley; Samuel (1764-1837); Tea and silk merchant and Member of the Managing Committee of Cork Street Fever Hospital | 1764-1837 |
| DS/UK/2479 | Disney; William (fl. late eighteenth century-early nineteenth century); Trustee of Cork Street Fever Hospital and member of the Committee of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East | fl. late eighteenth century-early nineteenth century |
| DS/UK/2480 | Disney; Thomas (fl. late eighteenth century-early nineteenth century); Trustee of Cork Street Fever Hospital and member of the Committee of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East | fl. late eighteenth century-early nineteenth century |
| DS/UK/2426 | Guinness; Arthur (c. 1725-1803); Brewer and founder of the Guinness brewery business | c. 1725-1803 |
| DS/UK/2481 | Harding; William (fl. late eighteenth century-early nineteenth century); Trustee of Cork Street Fever Hospital | fl. late eighteenth century-early nineteenth century |
| DS/UK/2487 | Hodgson; Lewis (fl. late eighteenth century-early nineteenth century); Trustee of Cork Street Fever Hospital | fl. late eighteenth century-early nineteenth century |
| DS/UK/2427 | LaTouche; John David (fl. late 18th-mid 19th century); Banker and first Governor of the Bank of Ireland | fl. late 18th-mid 19th century |
| DS/UK/137 | MacDonnell; Richard (1787-1867); provost of Trinity College Dublin | 1787-1867 |
| DS/UK/2433 | Maquay; John Leland (1791-1868); Bank director and founder of the Pakenham & Maquay bank of Florence, Italy | 1791-1868 |
| DS/UK/2484 | Orr; John (fl. late eighteenth century-early nineteenth century); Trustee of Cork Street Fever Hospital | fl. late eighteenth century-early nineteenth century |
| DS/UK/2485 | Renny; George (1757-1848); Physician, Surgeon, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, and Member of the Managing Committee of Cork Street Fever Hospital | 1757-1848 |
| DS/UK/2486 | White; Luke (fl. late eighteenth century-early nineteenth century); Bookseller and trustee of Cork Street Fever Hospital | fl. late eighteenth century-early nineteenth century |
| DS/UK/2685 | Morgan; Maurice (fl. late 18th-early 19th century); Physician | fl. late 18th-early 19th century |
| DS/UK/2397 | Barker; Francis (1773-1859); physician and Professor of Chemistry | 1773-1859 |
| DS/UK/2686 | Stoker; William (1773-1848); Physician | 1773-1848 |
| DS/UK/2687 | Hagan; George (fl. late 18th-early 19th century); Physician | fl. late 18th-early 19th century |
| DS/UK/2688 | Gamble; Richard (fl. late 18th - early 19th century); physician | fl. late 18th - early 19th century |
| DS/UK/64 | Dublin; Cork Street Fever Hospital; 1801-1953 | 1801-1953 |