Browsing History (Theses and Dissertations) by Author "Zimmerman, Shelby Beth"
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?An Incalculable Amount of Misery?: The Smallpox Epidemic of 1871-3 and the South Dublin Union
Zimmerman, Shelby Beth (2018)From 1871-3, Ireland experienced one of the deadliest smallpox outbreaks in the nineteenth century with at least 3,248 fatalities during the peak, yet was overshadowed by the Famine, fever, and cholera in the historiography. ... -
The Medicalisation of Death in a Dublin City Workhouse, 1872-1920
Zimmerman, Shelby Beth (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This thesis examines the role the South Dublin Union (SDU) workhouse played in Dublin's medical landscape for the sick and dying poor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries during periods of normal operation. ...