He took on clergy over deaths at the home while survivors hope to see a public enquiry. Irish adoptees are desperate to find out about a doctor who closed a
mother-and-baby home in the 1940s due to its high mortality rates.
The late Dr James Deeny, a former chief medical officer for the Department of Health, was so shocked by the high mortality rates of babies born at Bessborough, Co Cork, that he temporarily shut the place down.
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The late Dr James Deeny, a former chief medical officer for the Department of Health, was so shocked by the high mortality rates of babies born at Bessborough, Co Cork, that he temporarily shut the place down.
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