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“the admission process in the Rotunda began when a pregnant woman requested an admission ticket from the porter at the hospital lodge. Her name and address were recorded, after which she sought recommendation for admission from a clergyman, hospital governor or ‘responsible citizen’.22 With a recommendation secured, the woman attended the hospital dispensary on the following day to have her admission ticket countersigned by the assistant master on duty.”
― 'She said she was in the family way': Pregnancy and infancy in modern Ireland
― 'She said she was in the family way': Pregnancy and infancy in modern Ireland
“This desire was also manifest in the occasional exasperated religiously inspired ejaculation to the effect that the failure of the law to capture and punish those responsible for infanticide was a ‘disgrace to humanity’, and that those who ‘escape[d] punishment in this life … may be sure of meeting their reward hereafter’, because they not only offended the ‘laws of nature and God’ but also ‘add[ed] the horrid sin of murder to that of incontinence’.”
― 'She said she was in the family way': Pregnancy and infancy in modern Ireland
― 'She said she was in the family way': Pregnancy and infancy in modern Ireland
“pregnant woman applying to the Coombe for intern midwifery care was required to present a recommendation to the resident medical officer signed by a patron, patroness, vice-patron, vice-patroness, governor, subscriber, collector or clergyman.”
― 'She said she was in the family way': Pregnancy and infancy in modern Ireland
― 'She said she was in the family way': Pregnancy and infancy in modern Ireland
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