I, p. 161.
[266] "At length, in seventh month, this system of relief reached its
height. In that month, 3,020,712 persons received daily rations. Even
under this gigantic system of relief, we found that our distribution
could not be discontinued. There were several classes of persons whose
claims we were bound to recognise, and in these cases relief was still
afforded, though on a reduced scale, and with considerable
caution."--_Transactions during the Famine in Ireland. By the Society of
Friends_.
[267] This was up to the 16th of October only, but on the 31st of
December, when the account was finally closed, Mr. Bromley, the head
accountant, says,--Total expended to this day, L1,724,631 17s. 3d.
[268] Irish Crisis.
CHAPTER XIV.
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.
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