The exact particulars from the Dispensary district of Strabane show clearly how famine in Ireland is related to fever.
They retreated along the left bunk of the Boyne to Strabane.
A beggar boy was given a nights lodging by a cottier at Artigarvan, three miles from Strabane.
The Irish army which had retreated to Strabane remained there but a very short time.
At Strabane, there were four such, which sent ninety-six patients to the fever hospital in eighteen months.
