Drumcondra Hospital
Coordinates: 53°21′47.71″N 6°15′52.89″W / 53.3632528°N 6.2646917°W
Drumcondra Hospital (originally, the Whitworth Fever Hospital, and from 1852 to 1893 the Whitworth General Hospital) was a voluntary hospital on Whitworth Road in Dublin, Ireland, that became part of the Rotunda Hospital in 1970.
At the time of the founding of the parish of St. George in 1793 a dispensary was provided at Cole's Lane to serve the poor of this and neighbouring parishes on the north side of Dublin. This proved insufficient for the increasing number of cases. A few years later, shortly after the establishment of the Cork Street Fever Hospital, an infirmary, St. George's Fever Hospital, was opened in Lower Dorset St. It was succeeded in 1818 by the Whitworth Fever Hospital, built alongside the north banks of the Royal Canal and named after the lord lieutenant. It was founded in order to have a hospital on the north side of the city like the Cork St. Hospital on the south side. A period of great distress and epidemic, due to poverty among other things in those days, showed the advantages of such a hospital.
The hospital was administered by a board of fifteen prominent Dublin gentlemen, presided over by the Duke of Leinster. The first staff were: physicians: J. Leahy, William J. Mangan, Robert J. Graves, Thomas Lee. Surgeons: Robert Adams and W. Wright. Resident physician: James Jackson.
The hospital was first open only to poor patients who were unable to pay for medical attendance or proper treatment in their own homes. It later moved to a location on Whitworth Road that had originally been acquired in the 18th century for the new church of St. George. The burial ground of St. George was located behind the hospital.
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