Magevelin and} Lismulmughray} 5548 1666 101 Donelong 3126 1217 71 Derrygoon 2568 1215 90 Part of Strabane 2796 990 75 ----------------------------------- Totals 14,038 5088 337 The proportion of attacks in these tables for a part of Tyrone, one-third to one-fourth of the whole population, is believed to have been a fair average for the whole of Ireland. Each attack, with the weakness that it left behind, lasted about six weeks; cases would occur in a family one after another for several months; in some cottages, says Rogan, only the grandmother escaped. One hundred thousand cases were known to have passed through the hospitals. Harty thought that seven times as many were sick in their cabins or houses, making 800,000 cases in all Ireland in two years; Barker and Cheyne estimated the whole number of cases at a million and a half (1,500,000). The mortality was comparatively small. It comes out greater in the tables for the Strabane district than anywhere else in Ireland except the hospital at Mallow. The following table, compiled by Harty, shows how widely the fatality ranged (if the figures can be trusted), from place to place and from season to season: Proportions of fatal cases of typhus in the chief hospitals of Ireland 1817, 1818 and 1819 (Harty)[476]. 1817 1818 1819 Average One in One in One in One in Dublin 14½ 24 18¼ 20 Kilkenny 16½ 14⅚ 12⅔ 14¼ Dundalk 20-6/7 54 25 30 Belfast 19⅕ 15⅘ 19 17⅓ Newry 21-1/9 34½ 13½ 26 Cork 29 35 35 33⅕ Limerick 13½ 15⅔ 30⅔ 16½ Waterford 27⅓ 25 23⅓ 24⅗ Clonmel 27 18 18¼ 19⅓ Mallow 22½ 9⅗ 12 Killarney 74 67 33 62 Tralee 20¾ 69 43 39 What this meant to particular places will appear from some instances. In the parish of Ardstraw, Tyrone, with a population of about twenty thousand, 504 coffins are stated by the parish minister to have been given to paupers in eighteen months. The burials were about twice as many as in ordinary years, according to the register of the Cathedral churchyard of Armagh: 1815 247 burials 1816 312 " 1817 571 " 1 May-25 Dec. 1818 463 " Of the 463 burials in eight months of 1818, there were 165 from fever, 180 from smallpox, and 118 from other causes.