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Old Medical Records?

yaya* · 2010-03-01 23:03:54

Hi all, Bit of a strange one here - without going into too much detail, my family are interested in seeing if we can locate my great-grandmothers medical records from around the late 1920s, early 1930s Dublin - is there anyway of doing this or is it a pointless search? Thanks

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02-03-2010 12:03am

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yaya*

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Hi all,

Bit of a strange one here - without going into too much detail, my family are interested in seeing if we can locate my great-grandmothers medical records from around the late 1920s, early 1930s Dublin - is there anyway of doing this or is it a pointless search?

Thanks

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#2 02-03-2010 12:44am
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I looked into my own great-grandmother's records because I knew she'd been in Grangegorman in the 1930s. They didn't have any records that were that old. Before I found her in Grangegorman, I contacted some other mental institutions in Dublin. Some had records, all asked me what relation but in every case, they didn't have records that old.

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#3 06-03-2010 8:19pm
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Even if they have records, there may be issues with releasing them within 100 years.

I know that Limerick Corporation have access to the records of the old Bedford Row Nursing Home and I think it will be 1926 before the early records are released.

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