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TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC HEALTH

... reduced to the most shocking straits; their staple food, I assure you, is netlfee, green cabbage, and the small .shellfish they pick up on the strand ! What fuel for this frightful disease which las just made its appearance here, and has begun already to rage ...

Published: Wednesday 30 May 1849
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1023 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

EXPRESS

... of the hells in the rneighbourhood of St. Janmes's-street' London, has a salary of six guineas a-week, besides what lie can pick up from the dupes and dupers who attend his per- formances ! DIsINTErstsTED RarnUeST.-A fire happening at a piiib- lie-house ...

Published: Tuesday 08 January 1833
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1287 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

HORRORS OF TRANSPORTATION—APPALLING ADVENTURES OF A CONVICT

... sixteen days rthey. wandqred on, exposed to all the t-inclemencies of the weather, nan' with no other food than lig the garbage they picked up in the bush. They then met all another party, of the natives, who were out hunting, and iewho offered to conduct ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1843
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2435 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

DESTITUTION IN MAYO—THE DEANERY OF WESTOPORT

... nevertheless, for the most part left to die of hunger, or prolong a wretched exist once by eating the half rotten garbage which they can pick up in the fields and highways. Resolved-That we saw with pain and hitter disappoint - ment that the Irish Executive ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1849
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2079 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

PRESENT STATE OF SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE

... with a heavy iron round the neck, wandering about the town in quest of food to satisfy the cravings of nature, picking up bones and garbage of' every descrip. tion from the dung heaps, snails from the fields, and frogs from the ditches, and, when the ...

Published: Tuesday 09 June 1840
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2549 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

REMEMBER THE 30TH OF MAY, 1844!

... of the markets, which have precluded the ordinary con- sumption of the poor, and forced them to sustain life on vegetable garbage-not in the contributions sup- plied in local districts to force down the enormous cost of provisions, which are still beyond ...

Published: Friday 15 May 1846
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 5198 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN UNION WORKHOUSES—AGGREGATE MEETING OF THE CATHOLICS OF DUBLIN

... tholic countrymen, to day (hear, hear, and cheering). Why nd should not the reptile garbage of bigetted Protestant poor 0 'or law commissionel's, and the noisome garbage of low-lived n Orange schoolmasters and sohoolmistres5se in toe union tm, workhouses ...

Published: Saturday 17 October 1846
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 15854 | Page: 4 | Tags: News