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New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 128, 15 October 1875, Page 14

Rbstjlts os 1 thb Smaxl-pox in Atkenry. — Mr. Meldon, M.P., has written to the ' Times ' with reference to a statement in the recent letter of " M.P." on the small-pox epidemic in Athenry. He denies that thei'3 is any panic among the people on account of the small-pox. " He says — "It is true that the magistrates of the county, the poor-law guardians, and the gentry avoid the town, that service is no longer held in the Protestant church, that no petty sessions court has been held at Athenry during the past three months." He adds, however, that the poor people in the town, though deserted in their need by those who ought to have encouraged them, show.tht same amount of courage and charity as in emergency has over been shown, by the people of Ireland.