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From: Dennis Ahern <>
Subject: Re: Excerpts from Irish newspapers
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 18:58:42 +0000 (UTC)


From The Cork Examiner, 27 December 1862 -

ACCIDENTS.--On Christmas eve two rather serious cases,
the result, we regret to say, of excessive drinking, were
taken to the North Infirmary. One of these, Hannah
Tuomy's, was of that grave nature that the stomach pump
was at first found rather powerless to afford a speedy relief,
to such an extent had the patient indulged. After
considerable trouble, and by the application of electricity,
she, in about three hours after admission, so far recovered
as to be pronounced out of danger, and is now doing well.
The other was the case of John Fitzpatrick, labourer, who,
having been made a present of some whiskey, was unwise
enough not to give his family an opportunity of sharing it, but
on his way home drank it so freely as to reduce himself to
an insensible and dangerous state. On being removed to the
above institution, however, by the sucessful use of the
stomach pump, he recovered his natural condition. On
Thursday David Keeffe, a cooper, was brought in to the
same infirmary, suffering from some severe wounds in the
face and head which, he stated, he received at the hands of
relations of his. The wounds were immediately attended to.
The same day a little fellow named Patrick Murphy, having
fallen off a car, sustained concussion of the brain, and was
taken care of at the North Infirmary. Late last night Mary
Connell, an old woman residing in Kift's lane, was received
into the same institution, in a very weak state, having been
very badly used by one of her family. She was at once
attended to. The woman Brien, a tinker's wife, with
assaulting whom six of the same profession were charged at
the Police Office yesterday, had to be admiitted to the
North Infirmary, the nature of the wounds inflicted on her
head requiring immediate and careful treatment. At present
the wounds do not seem to be of a dangerous character,
but a few days' quiet will be necessary before their real
extent can be known. Yesterday Patrick Cahill, a young lad,
after being knocked down by a horse in George's-street,
was taken to the South Infirmary where it was found he was
suffering from a scalp wound. He is now progressing as
favourably as the nature of his injuries will allow.

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