the Relief Commissioners--The
Accountant's department--Number of rations--Money spent, 420

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. Wilmot
Horton--Present State of Peterborough (_Note_)--Various
Parliamentary Committees on Emigration--Their Views--The Devon
Commission--Its Views of Emigration--A Parliamentary Committee
opposed to Emigration--Statistics of Emigration--Gigantic Emigration
Scheme--Mr. Godley--Statement to the Premier--The Joint Stock
Company for Emigration--L9,000,000 required--How to be applied--It
was to be a Catholic Emigration--Mr. Godley's Scheme--Not accepted
by the Government--Who signed it--Names (_Note_)--Dr. Maginn on the
Emigration Scheme--Emigration to be left to itself--Statistics of
Population--The Census of 1841--Deaths from the Famine--Deaths
amongst Emigrants--Deaths amongst those who went to
Canada--Emigration to the United States--Commission to protect
Emigrants--Revelations--Mortality on board Emigrant Ships--Plunder
of Emigrants--Committee of Inquiry--Its Report--Frauds about Passage
Tickets--Evidence--How did any survive?--Remittances from
Emigrants--Unprecedented--A proof of their industry and
perseverance, 474

CHAPTER XV.

The Soup-kitchen Act--The harvest of 1847--Out-door Relief
Act--Great extension of out-door relief--Number
relieved--Parliamentary papers--Perplexing--Misleading--Sums
voted--Sums expended--Sums remitted--Total Treasury advances under
various Acts--Total remissions--Sum actually given as a free gift to
meet the Famine--Charitable Associations--Sums collected and
disbursed by them--Two Queen's Letters--Amount raised by
them--Assisting distressed Unions--Feeding and clothing sch