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O'Rourke, John

"With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines"


The Fever Act--Central Board of Health--Fever Hospitals--Changes in
the Act--Outdoor Attendance--Interment of the Dead--The Fever in
1846--Cork
Workhouse--Clonmel--Tyrone--Newry--Sligo--Leitrim--Roscommon--Galway--
Fever in 1847--Belfast--Death-rate in the
Workhouses--Swinford--Cork--Dropsy--Carrick-on-Shannon--Macroom--
Bantry Abbey--Dublin--Cork Street Hospital--Applications for
Temporary Hospital accommodation--Relapse a remarkable
feature--Number of cases received--Percentage of Mortality--Weekly
Cost of Patients--Imperfect Returns--Scurvy--The cause of
it--Emigration--Earlier Schemes of Emigration--Mr. Wilmot
Horton--Present State of Peterborough (_Note_)--Various
Parliamentary Committees on Emigration--Their Views--The Devon
Commission--Its Views of Emigration--A Parliamentary Committee
opposed to Emigration--Statistics of Emigration--Gigantic Emigration
Scheme--Mr. Godley--Statement to the Premier--The Joint Stock
Company for Emigration--L9,000,000 required--How to be applied--It
was to be a Catholic Emigration--Mr. Godley's Scheme--Not accepted
by the Government--Who signed it--Names (_Note_)--Dr.


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