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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1859 Excerpt:... What is the effect of this evidence? To establish all that I hare said, that the whole poor-house system is bad, and rotten to the core. I have never asserted that the Cork workhouse was one whit worse than any other in the kingdom, nor do I believe it. I regret that many labouring under this impression, yourself among the number, should have hastily taken up arms in defence of a system that is literally soaked in the life's blood of innocent children, whose only crime has been their poverty and their orphanage. I have the honor to remain, Sib, Your obedient Servant, JOHN ARNOTT. SECTION V. The Prevalence Of Scrofula In The Cork "workHouse. The Witnesses Examined. Being anxious to know how the appearance of these poor children would strike other persons, as well as myself, I requested his Lordship the Bishop of Cork, and one of the Chaplains, and the Medical officer of Spike Island, to visit the workhouse. The following is the Bishop's letter:--The Palace, Cork, May 2nd, 1859. My Deak Mb. Mayok, You have requested me to state to you what impression has been left upon my mind, in reference to the young people in the poor-house, by the visit I made to it the other day. I have since then read over your minute of the 6th of April last. I do not mean to enter into the statistics of that minute; nor is it necessary that I should. These are, I suppose, matters of permanent record. But I am bound to say, in general, that the extensive prevalence of scrofula among the younger inmates, struck me, as it did you, with a sense of painful horror. I observed that the hospital wards were not only full, but over-crowded, two patients being in many cases, put into the same bed; and that amongst those also who were not confined to the hospital, there were sad and unmistakable...