Milne, Ida (Author)
In 1918-19, with Ireland in a transitional state from British rule towards independence, the Local Government Board for Ireland, the body responsible for the supervision of Poor Law dispensary system and sanitation, faced what turned out to be the last great crisis before its abolition. The 1918-19 influenza pandemic, which killed at least 20,057 people and infected an estimated 800,000 on the island, placed an enormous stress on the under-funded, over-stretched and awkwardly structured health system. The Ireland of 1918 had a unique set of tensions which lent tone to the handling of the influenza crisis This chapter will explore how the influenza crisis was handled in Ireland, and will suggest that during the influenza epidemic, the Local Government Board for Ireland was widely perceived as being either unwilling or incapable of devising a plan of action to deal with the epidemic. The LGB was portrayed, through reports from Boards of Guardians’ meetings in the newspapers, as being quite obstructive to Boards of Guardians as they tried to cope with increased demands on medical staff and resources during the crisis. In the absence of a centralised crisis management strategy emerging from the LGB, local authorities fulfilled their statutory obligations in relation to sanitation, while a range of voluntary healthcare providers, from hospitals and charitable societies to landlords and neighbours, devised localised strategies to feed and nurse the ill.
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