[456] Sims, u. s. pp. 164-5.
[457] F. Barker and J. Cheyne, Account of the Fever lately epidemical in Ireland, 2 vols. London, 1821. This work relates mainly to the epidemic of 1817-19, but there is a short retrospect, the valuable part of which is for the years 1797-1802.
[458] The history of the Limerick and Belfast fever-hospitals is carried back to a few years before the founding of the Waterford hospital; but the latter was the first that was formally organised as a fever-hospital.
[459] “The fever in 1800 and 1801 very generally terminated on the fifth or seventh day by perspiration; the disease was then very liable to recur. The poor were the chief sufferers by it; and it was much more fatal amongst the middling and upper classes in proportion to the number attacked.” Barker and Cheyne, op. cit. p. 20.
[460] Smith’s Kerry. Dublin, 1756, p. 77.
[461] Smith’s Kerry, p. 88.
[462] A Tour in Ireland ... in 1776-78. London, 1780.
[463] The forty-shillings freeholder of Ireland was a life-renter whose farm was worth forty shillings annual rent more than the rent reserved in his lease.
[464] Malthus, Essay on the Principle of Population. Bk. II. chap. 10, Bk. III. chap. 8, and Bk. IV. chap. 11.
[465] Francis Rogan, M.D., Observations on the Condition of the Middle and Lower Classes in the North of Ireland, as it tends to promote the diffusion of Contagious Fever; with the History and Treatment of the late Epidemic Disorders. London, 1819.