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Poor Relief, Ireland, 1841, 1844–47, 1848–51, 1861–65, 1867:—

Year	Population	Total number relieved in-door	Total number relieved out-door	Total number relieved in-door and out-door during the year
1841	8,199,853	31,108	—	—
1844	8,276,627	104,409	—	—
Sept. 29, 1847	8,025,274	420,499	14,000	434,499
Out-door relief, commenced Sept. 1847
1848	7,639,800	610,463	1,433,042	2,043,505
1851	6,514,473	707,443	47,914	755,357
1861	5,788,415	203,422	14,008	217,430
1865	5,641,086	252,170	36,826	288,996
1867	5,556,962	257,890	55,000	312,890

Let me now give some figures on the rate of wages, taken from Lord Dufferin's work on 'Irish Emigration':—

	1867
Antrim	8s.
Carlow	7s.
Cork	7s. to 8s.
Galway	7s.
Kildare	9s.
Kerry	7s.
„ (in summer)	9s.
Meath	7s. to 8s.
Tipperary	7s. to 8s.

The following rest on official authority:—

Returns of Rate of Wages in some of the principal Agricultural Districts:—

	1831	1841	1851	1861	1866
Near Athy, co. Kildare	little money wages	4s. to 5s.	7s.	8s.	8s.
Near Clogheen, south part of co. Tipperary	5s.	6s.	7s.	8s.	8s.