Galway In Days Gone By

Typhoid outbreak

Seven cases of typhoid fever from the districts of Ballindooley, Ballaugh, Gortnacleavagh and Drum, a few miles outside Galway, have been notified.

All of the patients have been admitted to the Central Hospital. The infection is stated to be due to the contamination of wells in the districts.

Dr. Davitt, of the Central Hospital, Galway, in his annual report, states that last year during the serious and widespread epidemic of typhoid fever, some four hundred patients passed through the fever wards of the Central Hospital and, considering the virulence of the infection, the mortality was very small – less than 3 per cent.

1950

Cracking the whip

The re-election of Senator Martin Quinn as chairman was the only major issue on which the members of the new Galway County Council were unanimous when they held their first meeting on Wednesday.

No sooner had this been done than the party whips started cracking and in the eighteen divisions which followed, the result of the voting was monotonously 18 to 13.

Ald. Miss Ashe (Indpt.) voted solidly with the Fianna Fáil bloc in all the divisions for the election of representatives on the various sub-committees.

As the members voted in alphabetical order, Ald. Miss Ashe was the first to vote each time and this drew from Senator Quinn at the conclusion of the twelfth division the jocose remark: “You lead and we follow, Miss Ashe.”

Pictured: ALL KINDS OF EVERYTHING: Presidential candidate Dana (Rosemary Scallon) speaking to Mass goers across the road from the Abbey Church in Francis Street in Galway City on October 26, 1997.