Typhus Epidemic Cork 1816-1819 facilitated by Window Tax (1799 extended 1816).
Courtesy Neil Cronin, Cork Medical History.
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1788 Kinsale Heart Tax Returns with Exemptions. Loss of Window Tax Returns and Irish Tax Revenue 1818-8. Applications to Reopen Closed Hearths on Advice of Physicians for Those with Fever.
1832. Return of Fever Hospitals, including Cork, Bandon, Kinsale, Admissions, Deaths, Expenditure, Medical Personnel
1840. Provision by Cork Grand Jury of Medical Services including 53 Dispensaries and 11 Fever Hospitals.
1822 Distress, Clonakilty, Skibbereen, Schull, Crookhaven, Durrus, Bantry, subsisting on Nettles and Weeds which are picked up in Cornfields, Subsisting on Small Shellfish and Seaweed, Cows have Starved. Carcasses Eagerly Sought After by Poor Starving People, Fever Victims Stretched on Pallets of Straw, Cork Branch of London Relief Society.
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