.. L1,420,417 14 11
To fever hospitals ... L119,055 16 0
The advances at one time exceeded L60,000 a-day, distributed over nearly
two thousand accounts.
The sum given to Sir R. Routh for the food in the depots shows there
were about twelve thousand tons of provisions in them.
The sum set down to the fever hospitals includes the erection and
furnishing of the fever sheds. In addition to this amount, L4,479 was
expended in providing proper medical inspection and superintendance in
localities in which great sickness prevailed, and L60,000 was advanced
for the enlargement of the Workhouses, principally by the erection of
fever wards.[268]
In the appendix to this, their last report, the Commissioners bear
honourable testimony to the manner in which the people behaved. They
say: "The order and good conduct of the peasantry, and of the people
generally, notwithstanding the great influx of paupers into the towns,
is highly to be commended. All admit, that the resignation and
forbearance of the labouring classes was _astonishing_, when it is
remembered with what rapidity the real famine encompassed them.
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