Hospital in Blackrock in 1920s

[dermo]

Hi

In a death record of 1922, registered in Rathdown, the place of death is "S. S. Hospital, Blackrock".  Does anyone know what the "S. S." stands for?

Dermo

[eadaoin]

The only Hospital I know of in Blackrock was St Patrick's, near Temple Hill, for babies awaiting fostering/adoption when I knew it in 1950s onwards.


EDIT: there's St John of God Mental Hospital on the Stillorgan Road - could have been part of Blackrock? And a St john of God Special School in "Obelisk Park" in the same area - no idea when these started. (it looks as if this started up in 1923 see
 http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/environment-geography/physical-landscape/man-and-the-landscape-in/obelisks/

[dublin1850]

Was it a TB death? There were lots of smaller TB hospitals all over the place.

The librarians upstairs in Pearse St. library may do a look up of their Thom's collection if they are not busy. I have always found them very responsive to email.

[dermo]

Many thanks for the replies. I will check Thom's. As far as I know it was not a TB hospital - at least, that was not the cause of death in this case.

[LH]

Hi

Leopardstown Park Hospital is very close to Blackrock and as a child I heard it referred to as catering for Soldiers and Sailors who'd served in the war.

See http://www.lph.ie/history.php

Cheers

[dublin1850]

Great find LH. I searched for soldiers and sailors hospital blackrock and got this:

http://www.soccerintheboro.com/blackrock-hospital.php

Suggests it was on Carysfort Avenue?

[dermo]

I checked in Thom's 1922 and the only hospital I found in Blackrock was the Military Orthopaedic Hospital in Carysfort Avenue.  It occurred to me that the "S. S." in the death record might stand for Soldiers and Sailors and refer to this hospital.  Dublin1850, I think your find confirms that. Many thanks. My googling for "soldiers and sailors" didn't turn that up.  As it happens, however, from further research I found that  the death record with the hospital reference was not for the relative I thought it referred to - just another former soldier of the same name and implied birth year!

[Whitemill]

Hello Dermo,
I have my grandfathers medical records from 1919 when he was a patient at ' The Military SPECIAL SURGICAL Hospital, Blackrock' . It may be that the SS on the death certificate is an abreviation of this.

[gaffy]

From the Weekly Freeman's Journal, 17 November 1923: To commemorate Armistice Day Requiem Mass was celebrated at St. John's Blackrock, by the Rev. E. O'Gorman, C.C., for the patients and staff of the Special Surgical Hospital, Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock.