The archives of Our Lady’s Hospital Ennis were
acquired in 2002 under a joint project with the Mid Western Health Board.
The
hospital records
are a microcosm for the social and economic conditions pertaining in
Ennis and County Clare and are a valuable
part
of our county’s history. This is a large collection covering 108
linear feet. It took over a year to fully process the collection and
the
material is now available to the public. Closure periods have been agreed
with the Health Service Executive (Mid-Western region) to protect the
privacy of individuals.
The contents include:
OL1 – General Administration
1868 - 1981
Minute books 1874-1942
Rough Minute Books 1867 – 1888
Members Attendance Register 1884 – 1967
Visiting Committee Reports and Memoranda 1954 – 1969
Annual Estimate and Demand of Mental Hospital Committee 1940
Annual Reports 1932 – 1935
Correspondence 1867 – 1938
Resident Medical Superintendent 1911 – 1956
Inspector of Mental Hospital Reports 1951 – 1979
Reports submitted to Department of Local Government and Public Health
1916 – 1956
Managers’ Orders 1942 – 1966
General Administration 1897 – 1967
Reports and Inquiries into the Administration of Our Lady’s Hospital
1891 – 1968
Financial Administration 1899 – 1974
Farm Management and Ownership of Land at Drumcliffe, 1946 – 1981
Stores and Purchasing 1953 – 1955
Building Maintenance and Improvements 1897 – 1974
Dr Power Resident Medical Superintendent 1958 – 1968
Staffing 1913 – 1970
Patient Recreation, Amenities and Occupational Therapy 1948 – 1965
Patients 1951 – 1984 (finance; transfer to other institutions)
Visits to Our Lady’s Hospital 1964 – 1965
Mid-Western Health Board 1972 – 1979
OL2 - Financial Management 1865 – 1992
(19 items listed)
OL3 – Admissions, Discharges and Deaths
Registers of admissions 1868 – 1990 (including admission warrants
from Ennis Gaol, 1868; committal forms 1868 – 1992; admission-refusals
1868 – 1900)
Control of Temporary Patients Extension Periods 1956 – 1994
Register of Discharges 1932 – 1989
Notices to Coroner 1961 – 1974
Post-mortem books 1947 – 1963
Medical Certificates – Causes of Death 1954 – 1974
OL4 – Ward Books 1934 – 1984
(including morning statement books 1934 – 1970; Assistant Medical
Officers daily report books 1951 – 1954; casualty books 1953 – 1984;
the Male Hospital and wards 1930 – 1984; the Female Hospital and
wards 1936 – 1971; and the medical diet book 1945 – 1951)
OL5 – Patient Finance and Welfare
(including paying patients’ ledgers 1899 – 1995, patients’ private
property, patients’ comfort fund 1963 – 1975)
OL6 – Clinical Records
Patient Case Books and Indexes 1885 – 1965
Medical Journals 1952 – 1960
Registers of Mechanical Restraint and Seclusion 1947 – 1965
Dangerous Drugs Books and Diary 1958 – 1983
Patient Case Files 1910 – 1970
OL7 – Hospital Provisions and Laundry 1950 – 1984
OL8 – Maps and Buildings 1963 – 1978
OL9 – Gatekeeper’s Books and Passes 1951 – 1960
OL10 – Hospital farm 1922 – 1977
Source:
Jaccqui Hayes. “OL/1-10.
A descriptive list of the Our Lady’s Hospital Collection, compiled
for Clare County Archives”. (Ennis: Clare County Council,
December 2002.)
