Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-10-25
TYPHOID In BELFAST
Epidemic of Disease Due to Use Of
Shell Fish as Food.
TAKEN FROM POLLUTED L0UGH
Law Enacted to Stop Practice Has
Little Effect.
AUTHORITIES ARE AT WITS END
Cork and Dublin Need Better Sanitary
Regulations. ......
NATIONAL SPIRIT STRONGER
Gaelic Language Gains Popularity IN
North of acknowledgements
shows Big Drop This
Year.
NATIONAL SPIRIT sTRoNGE

cities Is causing grave concern 10 l'o
suthorItIcs responsible Cor the pubic heal'h |
Just now there are serious epidemics OF
typhoid fever In Dublin, Belfast and Cork
and the sanitary authorities are ht the"
Wits end TO find a means of checking the
disease and preventing its recurrence.
Belfast has unenviable record IN the
matter of typhoid Ever since lH2-the
wear in which deaths from this disease
were first separately recorded-the deaths
from typhoid each year IN Belfast have
ben normally about 90 per cent over the
average for other cities In the United
Kingdom. Health commission after health
commission was appointed to investigate
and after exhausting almost every posi-
BILE cause. the authorities IN Belfast nave
come to the conclusion that the prevalence
Of the disease is due to the custom OF
the working class of gathering shellfish
on the shores OF the Lough and eating
them raw. Belfast Lough is famous place
for cookies and mussels, and every Satur-
dav afternoon and Sunday hundreds OF
people NAV be seen along the shore gath
ernE the shellfish and carrying them home
in great bags. The waters of the Dough
however, are badly polluted from the sew
age of Belfast and other towns on its
banks. Every effort has been made by
the authorities TO discourage this practice
and recently a city bylaw was passed max
ing It illegal incidentally the efforts of
Belfast to cope with the typhoid evil have
led TO the city having the best water sup
ply in Ireland
Epidemic at CIontarf.
Dublin is having a serious epidemic OF
the same disease in the Clontarf district,
and 90 far the authorities have not been
able to fix the cause. Clontarf Is not a
working class district and the general sani-
tatioD Is good. Both the water and milk
supplies are suspected and exhaustive tests
are being made. More than ninety cases
have been reported within the last ten
days.
Cork has only itself to blame for the
condition in which II finds itself The
slums Of Cork are among the worst In the
world and there are large areas that can
only be reformed by clearing off the pres
ert buildings altogether At a recent meet
ing OF the corporation one OF the council
men said that the slums of Cork were
worse than anything in ancient Egypt, and
Sir Edward Fitzgerald declared that they
were much worse than anything In mod
ern Constantiuyople Sir Edward also de-
nounced the slum landlords. who, he said,
literally traded in human lives. The cor
poration is now considering an extensive
housing scheme which will enable It to
transplant the inhabitants of these slums
to healthier surroundings.
The growth OF the national spirit in the
north is again illustrated by the report
which comes from Ballymoney this week
Ballymoney is probably the most Orange
town in Ulster and the last place in which
one would expect a flourishing branch OF
the Gaelic league. At the meeting of tho
Ballymoncy Board Of Guardians last week
however, a member announced Indignantly
= h,I NI,t a.,
league was holding a class in Irish nightly
in the local Orange lodge and that mos
OF the brethren were studying the nationa
language. The shocked guardian wanted Il
know n the board could not do anything
about it, and hc was still more shocked
when the board laughed at him. and passed
resolution IN favor of the teaching o
Irish in the new National university.
New Interest tn Gaelic.
Tho studying Of Irish is also taking OF
new life at Maynooth the training schoo
for the Irish Catholic clergy. For goo,
many years It has been rather the fashiol
at Maynooth to sneer at IRISH but the Ian
guags revival has made itself felt here
too. and today almost every young prizes
feels Il his duty to encourage the move
meut At the recent prize giving Cano
OF Icary, who is one of the pioneers of tn
movement told how his mind had bee
directed 20 the national tongue by Joh
McHslc the great archbishop OF Tuau
When the canon was a student at May
nooth he won prize for an essay on 9TH
Eizabcthan Age OF English Literature.
The prize presented by Archbisho
McHale, who said to him. You spoke c
The learning and literature OF Rome, 20
spoke Of the learning and literature c
Greece, you spoke OF the learning an
literature Of France and you spoke OF III
learning and literature OF England bt
you did not say word OF the learnin
and literature Of Ireland" The rebuke 81
the young priest thinking and from thl
day he has been leader in the fight fC
the preservation OF the Irish tongue
Great Drop in Emigration.
Emigration from Ireland shows a gre,
drop so far this year, The latest retur
shows that the emigration In August la
year only amounted TO 2g74 persons {
compared with 1892 last year, and for n
eight months ended August 81 the tot
was only "A 81 compared with tOoss IN Il
corresponding period last year.
The king is selling off his estates in Ir
land, according to an official report ju
issued. on July l9 last he sold his esta
at Carrigeen Inishowen. consisting OF thr
acres, three rods, thirty perches for |
to. the Congested District Board for Ir
land, and during the present year ~
other estates have been sold By his males
for SIS and s., respectively. This reduc
his total holdings In ireland 10 about
acres. The income from his Irish estat
last year was about $4,000 some OF the
are very valuable town property.
The Dublin corporation has refused
license a number OF motor cabs for use
the streets OF the city. and the jarve.
have thus scored another victory Re
months ago they succeeded In driving Il
motor omnibuses off the streets The re
son assigned by the corporation for
action vas that the jarveys were "a We
deserving class Of men who did not dessr
sxtsnctioS r. X CULLEN