Book of the Rotunda Hospital

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Mosse designed that his Hospital Should serve two great purposes - the relief of the poor, and the teaching of midwifery - and these objects have ever been kept in the forefront by those who have had the management of its fortunes. Even when things looked darkest, when funds were almost exhausted, and friends seemed to waver, the Governors held fast to the rule that no poor woman in the time of her need Should be refused the relief She sought at the doors of the Hospital. There is hardly a country in the world that has not sent some of her sons and daughters to learn midwifery in the Dublin Lying-in Hospital. It seems right that the history of such an institution should be preserved, both as a tribute of our gratitude to those who have handed it down to us, and as an expression of our confidence that our successors will carry on the noble traditions of the place.