Fortunately he survived, but was dangerously
close to becoming one of the 220 babies and toddlers who died at the
home between 1922 and 1949. A mother and baby home survivor said he was close to being “one of
those children left in a mass grave” after he suffered multiple
illnesses as a baby.
Derek Leinster was born in the Protestant Bethany Home, in Rathgar, Dublin, in 1941. At four-and-a-half-months old he was “torn” from his mother’s arms and left to suffer through horrific diseases like pneumonia and diphtheria.
http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/mother-baby-home-survivor-tells-9979304
Derek Leinster was born in the Protestant Bethany Home, in Rathgar, Dublin, in 1941. At four-and-a-half-months old he was “torn” from his mother’s arms and left to suffer through horrific diseases like pneumonia and diphtheria.
http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/mother-baby-home-survivor-tells-9979304