St Patrick's University Hospital
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St Patrick's University Hospital
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Geography | |
Location | Dublin, Ireland |
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Organisation | |
Hospital type | Specialist |
Affiliated university | Trinity College Dublin |
Services | |
Beds | 241 |
Speciality | Psychiatric Hospital |
History | |
Founded | 1747 |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in the Republic of Ireland |
St Patrick's University Hospital (Irish: Ospidéal Ollscoile Naomh Pádraig) is a teaching hospital at Kilmainham in Dublin. It is managed by St Patrick’s Mental Health Services.
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History
The hospital was founded with money bequeathed by the political pamphleteer, Jonathan Swift, following his death as "St. Patrick's Hospital for Imbeciles".[1] He was keen that his hospital be situated close to a general hospital because of the links between physical and mental ill-health, so St. Patrick's was built beside Dr Steevens' Hospital. The hospital, which was designed by George Semple, opened in 1747.[2]
In "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift", the poet anticipated his own death:
He gave the little Wealth he had,
To build a House for Fools and Mad:
I wish it soon may have a Better.[3]
And shew'd by one satyric Touch,
No Nation wanted it so much:
That Kingdom he hath left his Debtor,
Swift himself was declared of unsound mind by a Commission of Lunacy in 1742.[4][5] Will Durant said of him: "He went a whole year without uttering a word."[6]
Richard Leeper, who was appointed Resident Medical Superintendent in 1899, introduced a series of important initiatives including providing work and leisure activities for the patients.[7] Norman Moore, who was appointed Resident Medical Superintendent in 1946, introduced occupational therapy, including crafts and farm work to the patients.[7]
After the introduction of deinstitutionalisation in the late 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline.[8][9] In 2008 the hospital announced the expansion of its outpatient services to a series of regional centres across Ireland.[10] A mental health facility for teenagers known as the "Willow Grove Adolescent Inpatient Unit" opened at the hospital in October 2010.[11]
Services
The hospital, which is affiliated with Trinity College Dublin,[12] has 241 inpatient beds.[13]
References
- ↑ Jonathan Swift. Retrieved: 2011-11-23.
- ↑ Elizabeth Malcolm, Swift's Hospital: A History of St Patrick's Hospital, Dublin, 1746-1989 (Dublin, 1989), 32.
- ↑ Verses On The Death Of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. Written by Himself Occasioned by reading a Maxim in Rochefoulcault. November 1731.
- ↑ Mental Health History Timeline. Retrieved: 2011-11-23.
- ↑ The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume XLIII, P. 468. 1855.
- ↑ "The Story of Civilization", V.8., 362.
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Further reading
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- Buildings and structures completed in 1747
- Hospital buildings completed in the 18th century
- Teaching hospitals in Dublin (city)
- Psychiatric hospitals in the Republic of Ireland
- Teaching hospitals of the University of Dublin, Trinity College