ARRIVAL SHIP
MASTER
VOYAGE
PASSENGERS
ARRIVAL
LATER DIED
DEAD
SICK
May 21
Try Again
John Barry
41 days (Cork)
182
10
11
6
May 22
Tottenham E. Evans
47 days (Youghal) 44 days (Cork) 25 days (Galway)
228
2
4
0
Urania
Robert Mills C. Daly
200
11
55
25
May 28
Albion*
206
Jun 1
Dominica
G. Slorach H. Bowman Feneran
32 days (Cork)
254
0
7
11
Jun 11
Albion
54 days (Limerick)
189
17
2
2
Jun 16
Lord Sandon
36 days (Cork)
246
17
0
10
Jun 18
T. Handford Pandora
A. Herbert
38 days (Limerick)
155
1
0
0
July 30
W. White 50 days (New Ross)
401
12
59
12
Sept 24
Albion
C. Daly
43 days (Cork)
184
5
14
1
*Information on Albion ’s first Quebec voyage of the season, provided by the Quebec Morning Chronicle , lacked morbidity/mortality data.
The contrast in outcomes in the above two tables is quite apparent.
Samplings of the Grosse Île hospital censuses for two weeks of July 18 – 24 and August 1 – 7, 1847, provide evidence of the health crisis at that point of entry
TOTAL PATIENTS (start of week)
NEW ADMISSIONS
DISCHARGES
DEATHS
TOTAL PATIENTS (end of week)
1673 1704
652 778
184 170
197 196
1944 2116
The deaths were attributed to typhus, dysentery and smallpox (Charbonneau and Sévigny).
‘ Terrible and sad as many of their stories were, the 37,265 people who travelled from Liverpool and Cork to Quebec in 1847 represent slightly over one third of the 98,749 Irish who sailed to Canada that year and less than 2% of the over two million who emigrated during the Famine at large ’ (McMahon).
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