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THE DISPENSARIES OF DUNGLOW AND BURTONPORT ROSHINE LODGEHIS
MARRIAGE In the year 1882 one of the periodical outbreaks of typhus
fever occurred on the islands, and to some extent also on the
mainland, in the Burtonport district. It broke out as usual in the
autumn. This suggests that it was brought over by the men returning
from the harvesting in Scotland. There can be no doubt that this
has sometimes been the source of the epidemic. The men, when over
there, are lodged in wretched " bothies" of the most insanitary
kindor at least were so lodged twenty years ago. The result was
that besides their earnings they sometimes brought back with them a
far more unwelcome gift in the shape of the fever which they gave
to wives and children. Oncethe typhus was clearly traced to an
importation from Glasgow of old clothes in the last stage of rags
and filth, which were eagerly bought up by the people in their then
poverty-stricken condition. But these have not been the only causes
for the deadly visitations which have been the scourge of the
district. Insanitary houses at home as well as in Scotland have had
much to do with it, and a scarce and bad water supply has
contributed its share. A Roman Catholic priest, who was devotedly
ministering to the sick during the outbreak of 1882, thus describes
a scene which he will never to his dying day forget: " I went into
the house. There lay a splendid girl at the last gasp upon a
handful of straw on the floor. In the bed was her mother, stricken
with the same fever. In the other room was another of the family
with outstretched hands groping delirious round and round the
walls; while in a corner the old father lay prostrate and dying." A
more awful state of things it would be difficult to imagine. The
people are so terrified of the fev...
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