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256 HOSPITAL OF THE MATER MISEKICOKDIJE.
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Ladies, P Douj3t:Less Many Of Your Reade...
management , manifested in the entire arrangements , and added to his signature in the visitors' book the expression of his admiration
of the Hospital and -his sincere good wishes for its prosperity . A few exact details of this remarkable edifice may not be
uninteresting . The principal , or north-west _facade , facing Eccles Street , is nearly 300 feet in length . Two approaches to the ground
floor lead into spacious waiting halls for out-patients of both sexes . Opposite these are the approaches to the dispensary for out-patients ,
and on either side are doctors' rooms , with private consulting-rooms , ward dispensaries , & e ., and in the rear of all is a spacious
laboratory with all necessary accessories . Passing through the corridor right and left , the temporary reception wards are
approached , together with the bath-rooms for patients on entering . When the wings to the building are completedthey will contain
, on the ground floor the store-rooms , fumigating ' -rooms , heating apparatus , & c , together with lifts for beds and for the prepared food
of the patients , and servants' rooms ; while in the rear of the ground floor will be the great kitchen 70 feet in lengththe larderarea
laundry , and drying-room and , vapor baths , , together with , a , boiler and engine-room , for raising water to the tanks on the roof .
The apartments on the two upper floors of the portion already completed will finally be allotted as the public reception-roomsgreat
linen dispensary , accident wardsconvalescent room & cbut , will foe used at present as general wards , , until the entire , buil , ding , is
finished . The temporary _chajoel is in a beautiful apartment 50 feet hy 34 , adorned with Corinthian columns ; this apartment will be
applied in future to the general public uses of the establishment . On either side are cross corridors leading to the operation wards
foaths , & c , on both storeys , and over it are the pathological museum , _, and an operation theatre altogether unequalled in this country .
The course of chemical lectures for the winter session , 1861-1862 , to opened the o u n blic Tuesday was , delivered November b 5 th Dr , . and Elli the sF . inaugural It . C . S . I . lecture Professor , open of p
, y , , Surgery to the Catholic University . It expresses so clearly the intellectual and moral tone required of the male students in a
hospital belonging to and managed by women , that your readers will peruse with interest the abstract which appeared in the Dublin
papers : — - »
" Dr . Ellis , who on entering was greeted with , loud applausecommenced inaugurate his address the by _opening _observing of this that lendid they were hospital not met the on mitation that , occasion of its great to
mission as a means of relieving sp the suffering poor or and a medium for the practical achieved cultivation but of medical science—that most interesting task had been
j school tant , purpose for — — they to throw were open now assembled the Hospital for of a different the Mater , but Misericordise not less imp as or a -
utilised conveyed for to students the them benefit b in y medicine and boots advancement or and lectures surgery of was , eac a p to h lace b be y personal wherein practicall the experience y app information lied and and observationIt
. was universally admitted that the only sure mode of
256 Hospital Of The Mater Misekicokdije.
256 HOSPITAL OF THE MATER _MISEKICOKDIJE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page 256, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/40/
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