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The Union Workhouse |
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St Tydfil's Hospital |
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The Merthyr Union Workhouse was built in 1853.
It was built to provide poor relief
for paupers. It also had an Infirmary, a Fever ward, and a Maternity
ward prior to this poor relief was provided by the Parish. Doctor T. J. Dyke Medical Officer
Of Health, reported in 1866"The number of poor people relieved
by the Parish, decreased from 55 hundreds to 33 hundreds in 1866." |
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| Waiting for relief
outside the Workhouse in Merthyr Tydfil - 1873 - Anon. |
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| Extract from a 1919
Merthyr Tydfil Map. |
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Cholera
Merthyr was affected by Cholera on three occasions.
1849
1,682 deaths.
1 in every 25 people died of the disease.
Lady Charlotte Guest wrote in her diary, "Upwards of
twenty people dying in one day and eight men constantly employed making
coffins"
1854
This outbreak was not so severe as in 1849.
1866
229 Deaths.
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| The Cholera Cemetery. |
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Abstract of the first cases of Cholera in the Epidemic of 1886.
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T.J.Dyke's report on Sanitary Conditions 1866 |
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St. Tydfil's Hospital - Docter and
Nursing Staff in the Maternity Ward |
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| St. Tydfil's Hospital X-Ray Apparatus -
1946. |
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