The
Lurgan, Portadown and Banbridge Advertiser
and Agricultural Gazette
Lurgan,
county Armagh
20 December 1849
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The Subscriber has been
receiving within the last few days, a large Consignment
of PLAIN & CUT GLASS, from one of the first
Manufacturers in England, and has received instructions
to offer them at Wholesale Prices.
CHINA AND EARTHENWARE.--In addition to the above he has received a few Crates of STONE CHINA EARTHENWARE, in Breakfast and Evening Teas; also, a large lot of FINE CHINA, at from 7s. 6d. to 10s. per Set, complete. --ONE THOUSAND OVAL TEA-POTS, in all colours, at six pence each. JOHN GILBERT. Lurgan, Dec. 20, 1849. ===================== NOTICE. Respectfully takes leave
to inform the Public, that he has taken out
LICENSE AS AN
AUCTIONEER.
From his knowledge
and experience in the value of House Furniture,
and Stock in general, and his determination to do all
in his power for those who may favor him with their support,
he hopes to merit a share of public patronage. Lurgan, Dec. 20, 1849. ================= |
OF LURGAN UNION WORKHOUSE, FOR THE YEAR ENDING 29TH SEPTEMBER, 1849. TO THE BOARD OF GUARDIANS, LURGAN UNION. GENTLEMEN, I embrace the first opportunity of leisure which has been afforded me, by the cessation of the last Epidemic, to lay before you a detailed statement of the Sickness and Mortality in the Union workhouse for the last year, to which, and the following observations, I beg your attention. The admissions for the year have been 2,331. During the same period, 1,757 have been under Medical and Surgical treatment, of which number 900 were admitted in a Delicate state of Health, so that in fact more than one half of those who were under my care, came to the Workhouse as to an Hospital, and were at once treated for the respective Diseases which they had contracted previous to their admission. The number of Deaths has been 259 during the year; an amount of mortality exceedingly small, when it is considered that there has always been a large proportion of Sick admissions into the House, as contrasted with the admissions into the Houses of neighbouring Unions, arising from the circumstance of our Workhouse being the sole asylum of In-door Medical Relief for the Destitute Sick Poor of a populous Union, so situated as to derive little benefit from the adjoining county Infirmaries and Fever Hospitals; and when, moreover, we consider the circumstances of the past year, rife as it was with Epidemics, attacking chiefly, that class of persons with whom we have to deal, and who were, for the most part, reduced by previous privation and suffering, to such a state of exhaustion and debility, as rendered them the fit recipients and easy victims of Disease, the Mortality will then appear much less than the Sanitary condition of the country during the year might naturally have led us to expect. You will observe that 79 died from Consumption, a fatal form of Disease from which we are never exempt. The cases of Fever have been fewer in the past than in the two preceding years, but though this has been the case last year, it would be wrong to expect that the decrease in Fever will be permanent, inasmuch as there is a remarkable law of nature which was fully exemplified during the prevalence of Cholera, that two Epidemics are never found in force at the same time, and should Cholera not break out again in this country, I am apprehensive that Fever will again be the chief Disease with which we will have to contend, as in ordinary seasons. I have paid particular attention during the year gone by to the Sanitary condition of the House and Grounds, my chief object has been to have those prolific external sources of disease, such as filthy yards, deficient drainage and ventilation, surface water, &c., &c., removed. I consider any improvement in this respect an important step, not only towards the comforts of the inmates, but one in the direction of real economy. From my urgent desire to have those improvements carried out to their present satisfactory condition, I may sometimes have appeared anxious for what some of you might deem unnecessary and expensive changes, but I acted always under the impression that the prevention of Disease is not only kinder to the Inmates of the House, but cheaper to the public than its cure; and although the saving to the Union from the sanitary regulations which have been introduced may not be apparent at present to some, their ultimate tendency is towards that end, which they are as clearly calculated to accomplish for the rate payers, as they are to secure and promote the Health of the Paupers. Thanking you for the kindness and consideration I have always experienced at your hands since my connexion with you, I remain, Gentlemen, your faithful servant, WM. ROSS MACLAUGHLIN, M.D., EDIN Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Physician to the Lurgan Union Workhouse & Fever Hospital. 25th November, 1849. Admitted into Hospital from September, 1848, to September, 1849, 1757 Total, 1887 Discharged, Cured, and Relieved. 1498 Left the Hospital, 14 Died. 259 -1771 Remaining 29th September, 1849 116 DISEASES/No.
of Cases/Deaths: Moved by J.
O. WOODHOUSE, ESQ., and seconded by JOHN M'CARTEN,
ESQ., and
unanimously resolved:-- ======================
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