Turner, physician, arguing against use of 'ardent spirits', and 14 physicians of Liverpool that one of the principal causes of poverty, crime and disease in the working classes is intemperance. (1p)
Ref.
U140/K/3/020
Date:
1833 - 1836
Level : file Title:
Scrapbook Page
Extent: 9 items Scope and Content: nd Card for Cork City [municipal] election, arrangements of the places for polling. Booth No.1 - No.8 (1 item)
nd Handbill, lectures on the Science of Education by Dr. Bryce. (1 item)
Feb. 1836 Prospectus/ handbill of the Cork Self-supporting, Medical Institution, No.1 Warren's Place, established Feb. 1836. Consulting medical officers John Woodroffe MD and Christopher M.Bull MD, licentiates of Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland; Daniel Cantillon MD, extra physician to the Fever Hospital; James Richard Wherland, Resident and Attending Medical Officer; for working classes and domestic servants who pay a small weekly sum. List of Rules regarding subscriptions, benefits of members. Refers to self-supporting Lying-In Hospital for female members. Summary of advanatges to 'YOU, Servants, Labourers, Room-Keepers, Tradesmen...Artizans working in Manufacturing Establishments...may rest assured of obtaining all the relief which skill and medicine can afford, administered with promptitude, attention, and humanity'; etc. (1p)
24 Mar 1835 MS. note from M. O'Donovan, Mechanic's Institute, re. workman's account re. piece of plate. (1p)
2 May 1835 Notice of annual meeting of Cork Scientific and Literary Society at Royal Cork Institution from Daniel Owen Madden, Secretary. (1p)
nd Notice of meeting of the Labourer's Friend Society at the new County Court House; objects to promote profitable employment of the working classes, whose moral and social character as well as physical comforts 'are thereby elevated'. Invites ladies to attend. (1p)
4 Nov 1833 Notice of monthly meeting of the Temperance Association, Princes Street in the school room of the Presbyterian Meeting House. (1p)
12 Oct 1835 MS. note from [William] O'Connell. Librarian, requesting attendance at commitee of science at the Royal Cork Institution. (1p)
nd MS. note from [Joseph Barry] to Thomas Lyons Esq, concerning Dan Connor, clerk of the South Chapel and 14 men from Clogheen. (1p)
Ref.
U140/K/3/021
Date:
1830 - 1836
Level : file Title:
Scrapbook Page
U140 Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List
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