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Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -)
Published in: Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -) 2/2016

01-05-2016 | Historical and Literary

Sir William Wilde and provision for the blind in nineteenth-century Ireland

Author: S. Mullaney

Published in: Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -) | Issue 2/2016

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Abstract

As Assistant Commissioner for the Census of Ireland Sir William Wilde worked as an early epidemiologist, providing information regarding the deaf-and-dumb and the blind in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland. As a social agitator he focussed the attention of the authorities to the plight of the blind and their inability to earn a living and support themselves. This paper highlights his contribution to the provision for the blind in Ireland.
Footnotes
1
In this report the cause of blindness was noted as ophthalmia (20 %), smallpox (11 %) unspecified (25 %). Details of the cause of blindness were not recorded in the Census of England and Wales in 1861, [5].
 
2
In this report it is suggested that the high number of blind in Norway was due to the scarcity of specially trained doctors, and that 40 % of cases were caused by cataracts [5].
 
3
The first institution founded for the blind in Ireland, Simpson’s Hospital for ‘poor, decayed, blind and gouty men’ opened in Great Britain Street (Parnell Street), Dublin in 1781.
 
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Somerville-Large LB (1964) Dublin’s eye hospitals in the 19th century. With photographs of a number of the hospitals and people connected therewith. Dublin Hist Record 20(1):19–28
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Wilde W (1851) On epidemic ophthalmia: which has prevailed in the workhouses and schools of the Tipperary and Athlone Unions. Lond J Med 3(25):17–43CrossRefPubMedCentral
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4.
The Census of Ireland (1851) Part III. Report on the status of disease. Alexander Thom, Dublin, pp 39–48
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The Census of Ireland (1861) Part III. Vital statistics. Vol. I. Report and tables relating to the status of disease. Alexander Thom, Dublin, 1863
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The Census of Ireland (1851) Part III. Report on the status of disease. Alexander Thom, Dublin, 1854, pp 46–80
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The Census of Ireland (1851) Part III. General report. Alexander Thom, Dublin, 1854, p 44
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Census of England and Wales (1861) Part III. General report. HMSO, London, 1863, p 54
Metadata
Title
Sir William Wilde and provision for the blind in nineteenth-century Ireland
Author
S. Mullaney
Publication date
01-05-2016
Publisher
Springer London
Published in
Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -) / Issue 2/2016
Print ISSN: 0021-1265
Electronic ISSN: 1863-4362
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11845-016-1434-6

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