The Principle of the English Poor Laws: Illustrated and Defended, by an Historical View of Indigence in Civil Society ... to which are Added Observations on the State of the Indigent Poor in Ireland, and the Existing Institutions for Their Relief |
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Page 87
... owing to the general failure of the primary articles of food , fell under my own observation : the poor were reduced to eat vegetable substitutes ; the consequence was , an infectious fever by which numbers perished .
... owing to the general failure of the primary articles of food , fell under my own observation : the poor were reduced to eat vegetable substitutes ; the consequence was , an infectious fever by which numbers perished .
Page 89
... who ascertained on the spot the state of the fever since 1816 , and the condition of the people . The inspectors made written returns to a set of questions , ten in num* From the Journal de Physiologie Experimentale , as quoted in ...
... who ascertained on the spot the state of the fever since 1816 , and the condition of the people . The inspectors made written returns to a set of questions , ten in num* From the Journal de Physiologie Experimentale , as quoted in ...
Page 90
All the inspectors attribute the fever to bad and insufficient nourishment , the potatoe crops having failed in consequence of the extreme humidity of the two years 1815 and 1816 , and there being nothing which could be resorted to as a ...
All the inspectors attribute the fever to bad and insufficient nourishment , the potatoe crops having failed in consequence of the extreme humidity of the two years 1815 and 1816 , and there being nothing which could be resorted to as a ...
Page 91
Since I was last here ( in Strabane ) this town and neighbourhood have been visited by two of almost the heaviest calamities that can befall human beings - Fever and Famine have been let loose ; and it is hard to say which has destroyed ...
Since I was last here ( in Strabane ) this town and neighbourhood have been visited by two of almost the heaviest calamities that can befall human beings - Fever and Famine have been let loose ; and it is hard to say which has destroyed ...
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The natural consequence of this wretched diet and lodging is , that a disease , which may be called fever , always exists in Ireland in a greater or less degree ; and that when the seasons are more unfavourable than ordinary , and food ...
The natural consequence of this wretched diet and lodging is , that a disease , which may be called fever , always exists in Ireland in a greater or less degree ; and that when the seasons are more unfavourable than ordinary , and food ...
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| Title | The Principle of the English Poor Laws: Illustrated and Defended, by an Historical View of Indigence in Civil Society ... to which are Added Observations on the State of the Indigent Poor in Ireland, and the Existing Institutions for Their Relief |
| Author | F. C. Page |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Longman, 1830 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 25 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 202 pages |
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