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.
“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.
The hospital was founded by six Dublin surgeons as the Charitable Infirmary in Cook St.,
Constructed 1801-1804, as a Fever Hospital and House of Recovery.
The physician Sir Patrick Dun had died in 1713,
A former convent on North Brunswick Street converted and extended into a surgical hospital around 1810.
The Lower House is the name given to the former Richmond Asylum which opened to patients in 1814 and served over 2,000 patients at its peak.
“Parliament was again petitioned successfully by the Governors [of the North Union] in 1815.
Replacing an earlier hospital building on The Coombe, The Meath was built on the south side of Long Lane in 1821.
In 1850 a central asylum “for insane persons charged with offences in Ireland” was opened in Dundrum.
The Richmond War Hospital was a 32-bed establishment on the grounds of the large Richmond District Asylum in Dublin which,