1803 – Former Hardwicke Fever Hospital, Morning Star Ave., Dublin

“Fevers of one form or another were endemic in the city at this time and in the House of Industry epidemics were frequent and devastating. It is not surprising, therefore, that the new hospital was given over to the care of patients with fever, a function it was to serve for many years. Government was now beginning to show signs of accepting some responsibility for the provision of medical care at least for the victims of fever, who were, of course, a threat to the whole society.”

“The Hardwicke Hospital was a plain stone building, two storeys high, with spacious, lofty, well-ventilated wards containing 120 beds. The basement was filled up with cells for the care of curable lunatics.”
The House of Industry Hospitals 1772-1987, 1988

A T-plan fifteen-bay three-storey over half-basement former fever hospital, with a central five-bay pedimented block. Pediment inscribed ‘The Hardwicke Hospital Erected in the Year 1803’. It was set up by the House of Industry and formed a neighbourhood with the Richmond Lunatic Asylum and other hospitals. The austere architectural design of this building, as with that of its neighbours, is indicative of that sombre nature. After restoration and adaptation, mainly the addition of extra stairwells, it is now apartments. While the Hardwicke Fever Hospital, the Richmond Surgical Hospital and the Whitworth Medical Hospital were known legally as the House of Industry Hospitals, they were known collectively as the Richmond until 1945,when the name was changed to St.Laurence’s Hospital.Plans were drawn up to build a large new general hospital on the site but this project was later abandoned.