IRELAND
Journal
CONVULSIONS. MALNUTRITION. DELICACY.
Babies died at the Bethany Home in Dublin’s Rathgar for a raft of reasons. Some, like Victory (1924) and Addison (1925), were stillborn.
Others, like Patricia Bass and Eleanor Allen, who died within a day of each other in February 1925, aged four months and five weeks respectively, died of ‘general debility’.
Evelyn Dixon was six weeks old when she died on 3 October 1926. The cause of death was marked as ‘syphilis’.
Charles Heffernon was 18 months old when he died of German measles on 17 May 1924 at the home. In 1935, both Margaret McKnight (three months) and Helen Parker (two-and-a-half months) died of ‘stomach trouble’ on the same day: 15 November.
June Spence lived for just six weeks before she died of marasmus (malnutrition) in the Bethany Home.
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