6/1/2023 0 Comments Pull of the stars bookShe did not know when her birthday was and had never stepped foot in a hospital before. Bridie is to help in any way she can, if only to deliver messages, mop up spills etc. With just three beds, with only just enough room to walk around them, Julia worked tirelessly to care for her patients.īridie Sweeney – is assigned to help Julia Power when staff illness has left her alone in her ward. This is where they put expectant mothers who had succumbed to the Influenza. When I say ‘ward’, I use the term loosely as it was a converted supply room. Julia Power – a single, 30 year old nurse who works in the Maternity/Fever ward of the Dublin hospital. There was a saying that “She doesn’t love him unless she gives him twelve” – and indeed one of Nurse Power’s patients was enduring her twelfth pregnancy at the tender age of just 33 years. This was an era of large Catholic families, many of them poor. 2nd, 1918 – a time when infant mortality in Ireland was 15% The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed more people than the First World War – an estimated 3-6 percent of the human race. Influenza derives from the Latin word influentia, meaning influence of the stars. An intense and grim story about three days in a Dublin maternity ward during the Spanish flu outbreak of 1918.
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