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School: Dunlavin (B.)

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Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
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Mícheál Ó Gogáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0914, Page 040

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  1. Local Happening - An Epidemic in Dunlavin

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    After the European War an epidemic broke out throughout Ireland. This disease called the Influenza was supposed to have originated from soldiers returning from the battlefields of France.
    In this town alone there was an average of three deaths a week and in many houses whole families were stricken down, very few people attended the wakes for fear of themselves becoming victims of the disease.
    Medical doctors stated that it was the scarcity of food and stimulants that helped that havoc caused by the disease.
    If proper food and stimulants were obtained many of the victims would have been saved.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
        1. plagues and epidemics (~104)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Leo Dempsey
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow
    Informant
    Mrs E. Dempsey
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    70
    Address
    Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow