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Fifth Interim Report

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation
April 15, 2019

http://www.bishop-accountability.org/reports/2019_04_17_MBHCOI_5th_Interim_Report_Dated_2019_03_15.pdf

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Introduction

1. One of the major factors in the decision to establish this Commission of Investigation was the controversy about the burial practices at the Tuam Children’s Home. As is now very well known, Catherine Corless established that the deaths of almost 800 children in the Tuam Home had been registered but there was no register of the burials of these children. She concluded that they were probably buried in the grounds of the former Home. The location and the manner of these burials became a major controversy.

2. The Terms of Reference of the Commission include, among other things, To investigate post-mortem practices and procedures in respect of children or mothers who died while resident in these institutions, including the reporting of deaths, burial arrangements and transfer of remains to educational institutions for the purpose of anatomical examination;”

3. This report is concerned with the burial arrangements in the main institutions under investigation and with the transfer of remains to educational institutions for the purpose of anatomical examination. It is limited to burials and does not include any analysis of the causes of deaths or the registration of deaths. These issues will be dealt with in the final report

 

 

 

 

 




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