Harriet Wheelock / Monday 11 April 2011 Dublin Clinical Hospitals Standing Committee Papers Available Online As part of the continuing process of cataloguing the archive holdings, the papers of the Dublin Clinical Hospitals Standing Committee are now fully catalogued and available for researchers. The full collection list can be downloaded from the archive web page or the records can be searched using the online archive catalogue. Richard Hayes (VM/1/2/H/20) The small collection of papers of the Dublin Clinical Hospital Standing Committee was found in the archive during the present cataloguing project, they had disappeared into the much larger archive of the College itself. The papers were collected by Richard Atkinson Hayes who was secretary of the Committee from 1881 to 1932, and were deposited by him with the college for safe keeping on his retirement. At the same time the minute books of the Committee were also given to the College until they should be needed again by the Committee. As these are no longer in the archive, it must be assumed that they were required by the Committee and withdrawn from the College's safekeeping. The Committee originated in 1877 when ten Dublin hospitals agreed to set a standard fee for students and apprentices in Dublin. Following the success of this first cross hospital agreement, the Dublin Clinical Hospitals Standing Committee was formally established in 1880 with the aim of agreeing united action on various topics. Including fees, the types of courses to be given in hospitals, and how the hospitals' could advertise their courses. The majority of the papers in the archive are a series of files of the topics discussed by the committee, the views of the constituent hospitals and any resolutions passed. Letter from the Mater to the secretary of the Dublin Clinical Hospitals Standing Committee (part of DCHC/2/7) The archive also holds the 1877 fee agreement and a series of agreements made between the hospitals and Irish sanitary authorities in the 1920s. The ten founding hospitals of the Committee were the Adelaide Hospital, City of Dublin Hospital, Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital, Jervis Street Hospital, Mater Miscericordiae Hospital, Meath Hospital, Mercer's Hospital, the House of Industry Hospitals, Dr Steevens' Hospital and St. Vincent's Hospital. The National Maternity Hospital and the Rotunda Hospital joined the committee later on. For more information or to view these, or any other, papers in the archive please contact the archivist