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Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Lottery tickets for a Dublin lying-in hospital


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1538 S43

Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Title: Lottery tickets for a Dublin lying-in hospital

Date(s): 1753-1754

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 folder

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

These rolls of lottery tickets were printed in Dublin in 1753-1754 to raise money for the building of a new hospital in Great Britain St, Dublin, for poor lying-in women. The lottery was later abandoned.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Two rolls of lottery tickets dated 1753-1754, raise money for the building of a new hospital in Great Britain St, Dublin, Ireland, for poor lying-in women. With an extract from The Book of the Rotunda Hospital by T P C Kirkpatrick MD and H Jellett MD (Bartholomew Press, 1913), which summarises the history of these and other hospital lotteries.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

The book extract is the copyright of Bartholomew Press.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

A general index to the files listed in the catalogue of the Archives of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is maintained in the College Archives; refer to the College Archivist.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

No further accruals are expected.

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The tickets were discovered in the College Library and transferred to the Archives in 1994, along with an explanatory article.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

RCOG Archives holds a video of a garden party at the Rotunda Hospital in 1947 (Ref: R5/4).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Sources: Biographical details of the individuals who have presented material to the College and/or comprise the subject of the records, have been compiled using information in administrative files and, where relevant, consulting Sir John Peel's book The Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1929-1969, Whitefriars Press Ltd, 1975. Compiled by Clare Cowling, Archivist, RCOG.

Rules or conventions: National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second Edition, 2000.

Date(s) of descriptions: September 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Hospital finance | Hospitals | Health services
Maternity hospitals | Hospitals | Health services
Medical institutions
Social sciences
Social welfare

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Dublin | Ireland | Western Europe | Europe