Nursing and midwifery in the poor-law unions of Borrisokane and Nenagh, 1882–1922For this week’s instalment of our IMAGE Book Club, we’re sharing an extract from a study that examines how the professionalisation and development of nursing and midwifery in the nineteenth century was reflected in the poor-law unions of Borrisokane and Nenagh in Co. Tipperary between 1882 and 1922.
Written by Lisa McGeeney — a registered nurse, midwife and public health nurse — she received a Masters degree in Local History from University of Limerick in 2020 and is embarking on a PhD in September 2022.At the same time as the night nursing issue was being discussed, the board had other nursing problems with the fever hospital.
Miss Lavery, from Kilkenny, was then appointed to the post but resigned in August 1897 to take up a similar post in Roscrea union at an increased salary. For the next few years the posts of nurse and assistant nurse of the fever hospital were rolled over frequently. Nurse Lavery was replaced by Maria Hickey, who was in turn replaced by Letitia Fennelly, who left in 1899 for a job in Bandon union at a higher salary.
Pauper nurses were viewed as ‘the blackest spot on the poor-law administration’ and the sick poor deserved better. By 1896, the Irish Medical Association, church hierarchy and Irish Workhouse Association were calling for reforms that included the cessation of pauper nursing, employment of trained nurses, nurse training for nuns, better diets for all inmates, better care of the children in the nurseries, more humane conditions for elderly and infirm inmates and improved sanitary facilities.
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