Psychiatric Bulletin (2000) 24: 479-480. doi: 10.1192/pb.24.12.479-a
© 2000 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Psychiatric Bulletin (2000) 24: 479-480
© 2000 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Joseph Vincent Glass
Formerly Resident Medical Superintendent at St Davet's Hospital, Monaghan, Eire
Henry Rollin
Dr Glass died, aged 92, on 3 March 2000. He was born in 1908 in Dublin and
read medicine at University College, Dublin, graduating MB, Bch, BAO in 1932.
At the university he was an outstanding athlete, particularly at rugby - a
game he continued to enjoy subsequently as a member of the senior XV of the
Clontarf Rugby Club.
After house jobs in Dublin and in hospitals in England and
Wales, he began his psychiatric career as an assistant medical officer at
Carlow District Mental Hospital, Eire, where he was greatly influenced by the
then superintendent, Dr Green, whose progressive methods of psychiatric
treatment were well known.
In 1962 Glass was appointed to a World Health Organization Fellowship and
travelled in Finland, Holland and Switzerland, and was able to incorporate the
best of their psychiatry in his subsequent treatment of patients.
He was appointed medical superintendent at St Davet's Hospital in 1948 and
continued his distinguished career there until he retired in 1972. In 1935 he
gained the DPM (Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ireland), and in
1971 he was elected to the Foundation Fellowship of the Royal College of
Psychiatrists.
He was predeceased by his wife, the former Murielle Slocock, and is
survived by their son, Tim, his wife and their three children.