A Century of Service - Eoin O'Brien

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Contents Acknowledgements viii Centenary Tributes Peter O’Flanagan, Chairman of the Hospital Board ix Matthew O’Brien, Chairman of the Hospital Board 2004–2007 xi Hugh Brady, President of University College Dublin xiii Desmond Fitzgerald, Vice-President for Research, University College Dublin xiv Introduction xv Chapter 1 The Voluntary Hospital Movement and the Dublin School 1 Chapter 2 Hume Street and times past 45 Chapter 3 A Hospital struggles to succeed (1911–1945) 67 Chapter 4 Stability and service (1946–1976) 109 Chapter 5 A hospital in decline (1976–2006) 147 Chapter 6 A new vision: bringing science to society (2006–2011) 169 Appendices 1. Medical staff memoirs 195 2. Board of Management memoirs 217 3. Dr. Wallace and Dublin’s first Skin Hospital. Frank Powell 229 4. Miscellaneous documents 235 5. The Charter of the City of Dublin Skin and Cancer Hospital 2007 257 6. Articles and Memorandum of the Irish Skin Foundation 275 7. Hospital personnel 295 List of illustrations 301 References 304 Index 315 vii
Acknowledgements I am grateful to many people for their assistance in writing this history of the City of Dublin Skin and Cancer Hospital. Without Matt O’Brien’s diligent research the history would be sadly deficient. Whereas I was in possession of most of the Annual Reports from 1939 onwards, I had no records whatever relating to the Hospital from its foundation in 1911 to the nineteen-thirties. Matt filled this void for me by assiduously researching the archives of the Irish Times where he was able to obtain not only most of the Annual Reports for the period but also the weekly reports of the monthly meetings of the Board together with other items that had attracted interest. Dame Beulah Bewley, Thomas Bewley and Norma Futers, relatives of Andrew Charles, provided personal details about the Charles family, which were invaluable and their contributions are included in the appendices. Peter O’Flanagan and Seamus Kennedy read the book and made many useful suggestions. Present and past members of the Board, and relatives of deceased members provided material and personal memoirs for which I am most grateful – Jim Lovegrove, Brian Crawford, Gerard Lawler, Tom Brennan, Peter Johnson, Mairin McDonagh-Byrne, Oonagh Manning, Feargal Quinn and Karen Erwin. Relatives of deceased members of the Hospital staff provided personal memoirs, obituary notices and photographs, which are presented in the appendices. I am particularly grateful to Denis O’Sullivan and his sister Helen Stapleton for details on their aunt Joan O’Sullivan, to David Mooney, Michael Brady, John Gilmartin, Denise Curtin, Hugh and Berna O’Brien and Simon Walker for documents and personal tributes to their parents. Mary O’Doherty, Assistant Librarian, Special Collections and Archives, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, provided me with important documentation relating to Andrew Charles, and, as always, valuable advice. Carmel McKenna, former Senior Administrative Officer, gave me useful documents for which I am grateful. Ulick O’Connor provided the photograph of the garden party in Gogarty’s house in Ely Place and Ronan Webster, Director, CB Richard Ellis gave me the photographs of the Hospital prior to its sale. Professor Frank Powell contributed an important essay on Dr. William Wallace, whose wonderful collection of paintings were executed in Dublin’s first hospital for treatment of skin diseases. I acknowledge with gratitude the permission of the publishers to reproduce textual and illustrative material from a number of books of which I have been an author. I owe much to a number of people who gave their time and expertise in the publication and production of A Century of Service; to Ted and Ursula O’Brien, who not only advised on the design of the book but also meticulously proof-read the text; to David and Edwin Davison for their photographic skill; to Aphria O’Brien for her secretarial assistance; to Robert South and Don Hawthorn from Nicholson & Bass for their patience in allowing me to set a book as it was written, a rather unusual approach, but the only one that was possible given the constraints of time and material; and finally to Tona for her patience, advice and sensitivity in designing the special edition, which has been so beautifully bound by Des Breen of Antiquarian Bookcrafts. viii
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Page 14 and 15: Introduction It is some twenty year
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The Voluntary Hospital Movement and
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The Voluntary Hospital Movement and
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CHAPTER TWO Hume Street and times p
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A love and appreciation for buildin
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fated Robert Emmet, and the Countes
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Gogarty’s house. 15 Ely Place. Wa
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When Gogarty died in New York in 19
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She was a morsel passing sweet And
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Stoker and Robert Woods had a disag
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He became a very successful surgeon
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from a turnip, looking out of aston
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Hume Street notoriety The nineteen
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uildings were lost, the developer e
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CHAPTER THREE A Hospital struggles
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The extent to which people have, an
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Nos 3 and 4 Hume Street Ely Place p
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have been preserved in such an inte
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Andrew Charles received his medical
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the different types of cancer were
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that he never missed a meeting betw
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The Charter became effective on 14t
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Honorary Life Governor in appreciat
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From statistics that I have had an
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the melancholy and untimely deaths
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per cent in 1939 56 to a remarkable
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A Hospital struggles to succeed (19
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monitor the effect of therapy. He w
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An unfortunate debacle: Gogarty ver
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For the next stage in the controver
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for its financial governance and Ch
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ecognition for inclusion in the Hos
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The statement that when the Corpora
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Death of Andrew Charles On March 2n
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presumably in preparation for her m
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CHAPTER FOUR Stability and service
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The Accounts for the year ending 31
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sum. But, we have now learned that
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And yet the Hospital continued to a
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The hospital buildings consist of N
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I think within the last three years
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Meanwhile, the work done by the Hum
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advise the Department of Health on
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only right, even if I digress, to p
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Ophthalmologist. Miss Joan O’Sull
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Philip Walker, himself a man of abu
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In keeping with the sense of togeth
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facilities available for the care o
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The remarkable standing which Hume
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specialists by their general practi
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adiation on cells, mentioned in my
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are in the hands of the Ladies Guil
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143 Stability and service (1946-197
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145 Stability and service (1946-197
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T he CHAPTER FIVE A hospital in dec
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The Minister of State, Sean Moore,
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discipline that constituted the dua
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As always in Hume Street, nursing w
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The refusal of the Board to face re
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Richmond Hospital to form Beaumont
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Hospital staircase 159 A hospital i
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death, to serve the hospital as a m
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Guild functions. She is sadly misse
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Hospital, who outlined his experien
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You will be aware of the recent adv
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CHAPTER SIX A new vision: bringing
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The smooth transition of the staff
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specialising in skin diseases to be
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The Chairman was then able to lay t
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The bringing of the vision from con
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UCD is ideally placed to partner wi
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This institute, to be known as the
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Mr. Peter O’Flanagan, Chair of th
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185 Bringing science to society The
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187 Bringing science to society The
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A laboratory in the Charles Institu
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Apart from considering funding derm
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Practitioners, the Irish Dermatolog
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APPENDIX 1 Medical Staff Memoirs TH
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TO THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD and In
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These were among those who contribu
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who teaches in the School in of Art
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Doctors who met her briefly could n
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My mother was also a native of Midl
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still in his early twenties, he joi
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in a hospital in England. Realising
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him two years ago) entertained thei
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the admiring sympathy of his ophtha
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He was elected hon. FRCSI (1974), a
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APPENDIX 2 Board of Management Memo
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these air raids continuing there wa
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Eamonn Quinn was succeeded on the B
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Club and Malahide Cricket Club (in
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Hospital during the war. Ralph was
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and content throughout its history
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APPENDIX 3 Dr. Wallace and Dublin
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The hospital, which was named The D
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On December 2nd 1837, Wallace atten
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APPENDIX 4 Miscellaneous Documents
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learn. It is important to know that
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Similarly the recognition of the ba
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cells, intensive X-rays cause a spe
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Royal College of Surgeons - they ar
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ecause I am aware of how carefully
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for her marriage to my father, we f
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These proposals were summarised in
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In October 2006 we set up a sub-com
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255 Miscellaneous Documents
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APPENDIX 5 City of Dublin Skin and
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2.2 words denoting any gender inclu
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4.12 To undertake, execute and perf
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7. INVESTMENT POWERS City of Dublin
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shall be deemed to be re-elected to
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City of Dublin Skin and Cancer Hosp
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18.8 A firm or other unincorporated
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20. PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS
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21. VOTES OF MEMBERS City of Dublin
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APPENDIX 6 Articles and Memorandum
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Articles and Memorandum of the Iris
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(e) fees, remuneration or other ben
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“Secretary” shall mean any pers
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(4) If he shall fail to perform any
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Articles and Memorandum of the Iris
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Signed this day of 20 This form is
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interest which is material or a dut
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60. For the purpose of these Articl
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(c) the assets and liabilities of t
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1911/19 J T Wood-Latimer 1919/19 E
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Mrs. F Lovegrove Mrs. B Lovegrove M
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MEDICAL STAFF X-Ray Therapeutist/Ra
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List of Illustrations Andrew Charle
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305 References 17. Cameron, C.A., H
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315 References Among other permanen
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Charles, Iris 140, 161, 162, 163, 1
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Lutyens, Edwin 52 Lynch, John 185 L
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