[44]. There was an infirmary in every county excepting Waterford, where the peculiar provisions of a local Act had prevented one being erected.

[45]. Namely 5th George 3rd, cap. 20; 45th George 3rd, cap. 111; and 47th George 3rd, cap. 50.

[46]. Ante, p. [77].

[47]. Ante, pp. [78] and [86].

[48]. Ante, p. [73]. The chapter is by mistake stated in the Report to be 91.

[49]. Of this committee Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald was chairman.

[50]. Ante, p. [79].

[51]. Ante, pp. [51], [74], and [77].

[52]. Dr. Doyle in his evidence[evidence] before the committee, stated that the poor were almost exclusively supported by the middle classes; and that “although these form a class not over numerous, and subject to great pressure, still of the million and a half or two millions now expended to support the Irish poor, nearly the entire falls upon the farmers and the other industrious classes.”

[53]. The committee consisted of twenty-one members, and Sir John Newport was the chairman.