Abstract
The relationship between famines in Ireland and mortality in England in the eighteenth century is explored. Specifically the author attempts to confirm Charles Creightons hypothesis that typhus (or typhoid) epidemics in England were directly related to periods of famine in Ireland. The author uses data from Wrigleys and Schofields calculation of death rates. The results suggest that nearly 50 percent of Englands mortality decline was crisis-related and that English health was constantly under threat from Irish famines which caused the stream of vagrants to the much wealthier England to swell. (EXCERPT)
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