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To: E. Charters who wrote (82158)2/16/2002 1:10:37 PM
From: Gord Bolton  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116972
 
An educated man thinks that he knows what he does not, a wise man know how little he knows.

In 184I the population of Ireland was given as 8,175,124; in 1851, after the famine, it had dropped to 6,552,385, and the Census Commissioners calculated that, at the normal rate of increase, the total should have been 9,018,799, so that a loss of at least 2.5 million persons had taken place. The figures available, however, must be regarded as giving only a rough indication; vital statistics are unobtainable, no record was kept of deaths, and very many persons must have died and been buried unknown, as the fever victims died and were buried in west Cork, as bodies, found lying dead on the road, were buried in ditches, and as the timid people of Erris perished unrecorded.
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To: E. Charters who wrote (82158)2/16/2002 10:03:02 PM
From: long-gone  Respond to of 116972
 
<<Cancer was prevalant in the 19th century. Lung cancer from exposure to the more prevalent wood smoke stoves and coal burning furnaces was fairly common>>

I've read this was thought to have caused large numbers of cases of eye cancer in native Americans.


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