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.
A former convent on North Brunswick Street converted and extended into a surgical hospital around 1810.
“Parliament was again petitioned successfully by the Governors [of the North Union] in 1815.
In 1810 a former convent became part of the Grangegorman House of Industry (workhouse) who commissioned a hospital to care for the ‘ruptured poor’.