Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 2)

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   “A committee was formed in London including some of the most influential nobleman in England...”

   

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   Nov 1845
   An address from the Committee, which stated that the amount hitherto contributed towards the liquidation of the debts incurred by the Rev. Gentleman, in his philantrophic labours, amounted to £6,840, and that barely sufficed for the object then contemplated.

   Drunkards committed to Richmond Brideswell
   Year ending 31st December 1841 = 3,457.
   Year ending 31st December 1842 = 2,610
   Year ending 31st December 1843 = 2,554.
   Year ending 31st December 1844 = 2,507.
   Year ending 31st December 1845 = 2,059.

   Here are the results of the preaching of teetotalism in Dublin, evidence in the steady decrease of commitals to that prison for drunkeness during the last five years.
   Committals for drunkeness to the Female Prison - Grangegorman.
   1841 = 4,786.
   1842 = 4,147
   1843 = 4,246.
   1844 = 4,520.
   1845 = 3,880.

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   • Thomas Hurley