National Children's Hospital

The National Children's Hospital was a children's teaching hospital in Dublin, Ireland. Founded as the Institute for Sick Children in 1821, it was the first children's hospital in Ireland or Great Britain and the second oldest children's hospital in Europe. The institution merged in 1884 with the National Orthopaedic Hospital established in 1875 - at 7 Upper Kevin Street with Sir Lambert Ormsby as Surgeon and Secretary - Wm Little - For treatment of children with Club Foot, Contractions and distortions of limbs and all other bodily deformities. First establishment of its type in Ireland. In 1880 the National Orthopaedic Hospital moved to 7 Adelaide Road with Surgeons listed as – Lambert Ormsby, Philip Smyly and G Porter. Resident medical officer James Parkinson. In 1885 the Childrens Institute remained at Pitt Street but the National Orthopaedic hospital was listed as the National Orthopaedic and Children’s Hospital at the same address in Adelaide Road. In 1887 after amalgamation both instutions moved to premises in 87n and 88 Harcourt Street where the hospital remained for over a century until it moved together with the nearby Adelaide and Meath Hospitals to a new co-located hospital campus in Tallaght.The National Children's Hospital remains an independent body incorporated with the Adelaide and Meath Hospitals in Tallaght. It is registered with the Company's Registration Office as a limited company - The National Childrens Hospital Company governed by a Board of Directors and with the usual Memorandum and Articles of Association.

History

The hospital was founded by the surgeon Sir Philip Crampton, together with Sir Henry Marsh and Dr Charles Johnston, on Pitt Street (now Balfe Street) in The Liberties.

References

• History of the NCH at the AMNCH website

Thoms Directory 1870 -1905