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The Irish Medical Profession and the First World WarThe Impact of the First World War on Irish Hospitals, 1918–1925

The Irish Medical Profession and the First World War: The Impact of the First World War on Irish... [This chapter explores the restructuring of hospital services for ex-servicemen in the years after the Armistice. In 1919 the War Office sought to reduce expenditure on medical services and instructed the Royal Army Medical Corps to decrease the number of hospital beds for soldiers in Ireland and Britain. This chapter examines how British Army medical services downsized its hospital network in Ireland. While this process took place, approximately 100,000 war veterans returned to Ireland and several thousand of these required medical treatment. Durnin assesses the effect of military policies on both military and voluntary hospitals in Ireland during the post-war era and the subsequent impact of these alterations on returning wounded soldiers. This chapter also considers whether hospital governors encountered difficulties in treating both ex-First World War serviceman and those from the Irish Republican Army.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Irish Medical Profession and the First World WarThe Impact of the First World War on Irish Hospitals, 1918–1925

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
ISBN
978-3-030-17958-8
Pages
181 –208
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-17959-5_6
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[This chapter explores the restructuring of hospital services for ex-servicemen in the years after the Armistice. In 1919 the War Office sought to reduce expenditure on medical services and instructed the Royal Army Medical Corps to decrease the number of hospital beds for soldiers in Ireland and Britain. This chapter examines how British Army medical services downsized its hospital network in Ireland. While this process took place, approximately 100,000 war veterans returned to Ireland and several thousand of these required medical treatment. Durnin assesses the effect of military policies on both military and voluntary hospitals in Ireland during the post-war era and the subsequent impact of these alterations on returning wounded soldiers. This chapter also considers whether hospital governors encountered difficulties in treating both ex-First World War serviceman and those from the Irish Republican Army.]

Published: Apr 27, 2019

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