Dr. AMBROSE:
...Pauperism increased from
52.45 per 1,000 in 1866 to 95.08 per
1,000 in 1894, during which period the
population decreased by 1,039,926. In
England, on the other hand, between
1864 and 1894 pauperism decreased
from 43.7 per 1,000 to 25.5 and the
population increased by 8,641,469.
That is, it is doubled in Ireland
while it is practically halved in
England. The number of emigrants from
Ireland in the period from 1837 to
1900 was 4,975,058 of whom 83 per
cent. were between the ages of fifteen
and thirty-five. The number who died
from famine between 1837 and 1886 was
1,225,000, while altogether there
disappeared owing to famine,
emigration, and eviction between
1837 and 1900 9,888,053. No country
on the face of the earth can show
such a record of the disappearance
of population as that of Ireland.
