Mother and Baby Homes: Children's bodies sent to Galway medical college but no record of names

The bodies of some of the children who died in Mother and Baby Homes were used for anatomical studies.

Mother and Baby Homes: Children's bodies sent to Galway medical college but no record of names

The bodies of some of the children who died in Mother and Baby Homes were used for anatomical studies.

While the burials of children used by the Dublin Medical Schools are properly recorded in Glasnevin Cemetery it was not possible to establish anything about the burials of the child anatomical subjects used in the Galway Medical School as their names are not known.

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