Observations on the management of the poor in Scotland, and its effects on the health of the great towns / by William Pulteney Alison.

Date:
1840
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Credit: Observations on the management of the poor in Scotland, and its effects on the health of the great towns / by William Pulteney Alison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vages of fever in some of the Irish towns; as in Dublin, where the number of fever cases admitted into one hospital (in Cork Street) was 24,000 in ten years 'preceding 1817, and the whole numbers ad- mitted into the different hospitals, in 2] months of 1817-18, was 39,000; or in Cork, where “ one-se- venth of the population passed through the different fever hospitals of the city in the two years 1817-18 or in Limerick, where it was estimated, “ and I be- lieve with good reason, that one-fourth of the inha- bitants sickened of the fever” in the same year ; or in Waterford, where “ the sufferers from fever in those years cannot be reckoned at less than one- ninth of the whole population ; while, in the part of the city named the Carrigeen, inhabited by the poorest and most miserable classes, there are good grounds for believing, that at least nineteen out of twenty persons suffered from the fever; and in Murphy’s Lane, containing sixty houses, every in- habitant had an attack of fever within two months or in Strabane, where “ it appears, from very ac- curate returns, that nearly one-fourth of the inha- bitants were affected with the disease, of whom somewhat more than the average died and let us remember the observation everywhere made, that “ the poor were uniformly the greatest suffer- ers, and fever seemed to rage among them in pro- portion to the sufferings they had enduredthat u tpe disease was most destructive in those parts of * Barker and Cheyne, vol. ii. pp. 16, 26,40. 122, 166.
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