Hospital feared pathology facility would upset patients
The then-State Pathologist Professor John Harbison had to assure the hospital authorities that only samples and specimens, and not bodies, were delivered to his office. Postmortems on bodies are usually carried out in Dublin in the city morgue, or nationwide in hospital mortuaries.
After years of promises to Professor Harbison about providing him with suitable facilities, the Department of Justice finally entered into negotiations with Beaumont in 1996 to locate a pathology office on the hospital grounds.
