My history blog looking at the experiences of Irish Deaf people in Irish schools, workhouses, courts, prisons and other institutions in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
27 February 2018
Sligo, 1903: A Deaf Workhouse Patient Loses his Leg
A window into early Irish health care experiences for Deaf patients: A Deaf man admitted to a workhouse hospital in Sligo, was unable to explain what had happened to his leg. A decision is made to amputate; but was the patient told?
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