Report - St Stephens Hospital Mortuary - Cork - August 2019

[Bugsuperstar]

St Stephens Hospital was completed in 1954 under the then Minister for Health Doctor Noel Browne. Built as a Tuberculosis Sanatorium it stands high above the surrounding township, however it now serves as a local psychiatric hospital providing various services to Cork City. There are several residential units onsite and CAMHS operate their services from here too.

There is actually an adjoining chapel of rest and small service chapel but it is currently locked up unfortunately. Its on the other side of these doors...

Heading through into the main mortuary are a couple of other little rooms, containing various different bits

I loved this old telephone

There is actually three slabs in this one, two of them are separated by a small dividing wall and are just open to the corridor. They don't have any fluid drainage systems and seem to be hard moulded plastic. I've not personally seen any tables like this before and this isn't the first mortuary I've visited. If anyone knows their purpose, let me know.

And then the main mortuary

Thanks for looking!​

 

[mookster]

Yesssss that is nice.

 

[Brewtal]

Oooooh that’s a beaut! Top work!

 

[raisinwing]

Very nice, some great shots there too!

 

[Bugsuperstar]

Thanks! It was nice to find one that’s not full of fake blood and staged scenes.

 

[Camera Shy]

It's a good'un, well done.

 

[Exploring with Andy]

Nice selection of slabs there

 

[Bugsuperstar]

It's a good'un, well done.

Thanks mate.

Nice selection of slabs there

Any idea what the story is with the plastic ones? I thought maybe just to prepare the bodies.

 

[Krypton]

Nice! The plastic ones are probably just for body storage as opposed to being for post-mortems. It was quite common in smaller mortuary's not to have fridges.

 

[Pammyj]

Very nice! The plastic ones could be for relatives to view the body’s? Purely a guess as I’ve never been in a morgue yet unfortunately

 

[cunningcorgi]

Is that the one out the Glanmire Road ?

 

[Bugsuperstar]

Nice! The plastic ones are probably just for body storage as opposed to being for post-mortems. It was quite common in smaller mortuary's not to have fridges.

I’d say you’re spot on with that. There was a room off to side in the mortuary at St Mary’s Asylum that had something similar but made from timber.

 

[Krypton]

I’d say you’re spot on with that. There was a room off to side in the mortuary at St Mary’s Asylum that had something similar but made from timber.

I used to have the pleasure of working with dead bodies for a few years. Even as recently as two or three years ago there were mortuary's that didn't have proper refrigeration facilities o_O

 

[host]

Quality you can’t beat a good morgue.

 

[Bugsuperstar]

I used to have the pleasure of working with dead bodies for a few years. Even as recently as two or three years ago there were mortuary's that didn't have proper refrigeration facilities o_O

I can’t even imagine!

Quality you can’t beat a good morgue.

Thanks mate.