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It cost  70 pounds to attend 78 Lwr. Drumcondra Road to have your baby in 1948.

Very interesting information Annette for anyone researching private nursing homes. That was a lot of money in those days as the average industrial wage for males in 1948 was approx Ir£4.4s.0d according to the statistics and about half that for females - that £70 would have been about 15 or 16 weeks wages     

Anybody know if there was a similar charge in the maternity hospitals? Maybe that's why a lot of babies were born at home in those days.

That £4.4shillings was probably for a 40 or 45 hour week - approx 6 or 7 Euro today.
 

The child and family agency Tusla found details of falsified birth certs from 1946 to 1969 where the mothers name was changed or where the adopting couple were registered as the natural parents. The Irish Times reported on it as far back as 1996 and many more reports in 2018 and since the latest commission findings in 2021. News reports said Tusla would contact anyone who was affected. Some reports suggested there could be up to 20,000. These are some of the articles.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/coroner-s-court/incorrect-registration-of-births-another-failure-by-the-state-1.3512772?mode=amp

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/adoption-board-confirms-false-names-were-given-1.33309?mode=amp

https://www.rte.ie/news/investigations-unit/2021/0302/1200520-who-am-i-the-story-of-irelands-illegal-adoptions

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/illegally-adopted-woman-urges-government-to-conduct-nationwide-investigation-1091163.html

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/%C3%A9amon-de-valera-s-son-facilitated-illegal-adoptions-in-1960s-1.4499519?mode=amp


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only maternity homes had to be registered starting from 1934. I read somewhere that records of children who were 'boarded out' were kept by the local health boards at the time as the family were paid for the child's keep. Do you have an address for Mrs malone? Tusla might have records.

Mrs R (Redacted), address 107 Marlborough Rd.
This is in the list of Institutions, Agencies & Individuals compiled by adoption rights during the mother & baby homes investigation. So it may have been a private nursing /maternity home.
 

I have just seen this notice on the website of the Department of Children & Youth Affairs.

This is the link for the survey

https://dcya.fs.ie/

The survey is open for replies until Friday 7th June.

ireland has a closed adoption system and adoptees have no right to birth information. In many other jurisdictions adoptees have this right when they reach 18 years of age. It would be good if as many people as possible could complete the survey and send a message to the Irish government that this needs to change.