| Description | File of material relating to Dr McSweeney's delivery of lectures on epidemiology for a Diploma in Public Health course in Trinity College Dublin.
File includes a schedule of lectures; typescript and handwritten lecture notes; a report on an outbreak of enteric fever in the Feoghanagh area near Dingle, County Kerry; notes on diphtheria immunisation; a report written by Dr Dr McSweeney on 'Missed Cases of Smallpox in Pontypridd, 1927', and other British health reports. Fourth lecture is on Typhoid Mary
The file also includes extracts from numerous articles taken from The Lancet, The British Medical Journal, and The Irish Journal of Medical Science; and copies of articles written by Dr McSweeney entitled 'The Desirability of Compulsory Notification of Measles and Whooping Cough', 'An Evaluation of Modern Diphtheria Prophylactics', 'The Hospitals and the Public Health', 'A Series of Outbreaks of Food Poisoning in Cardiff during a Period of Four Months', 'An Outbreak of Bacterial Food Poisoning', and 'The Treatment of Post-Diphtheritic Respiratory Paralysis with the Bragg-Paul Pulsator'. |