Table 2.

Numbers of “medical men” and pupils who died in Ireland, by disease, between 26 March 1843 and 1 January 1848 (adapted from Cusack and Stokes 1848³)

Disease	1843	1844	1845	1846	1847	Total
“Epidemic and contagious”:	19	11	20	33	131	214
“Fever”	17	11	18	30	123	199
“Sporadic”	28	27	36	44	42	177
“Violent or accidental death”	1	2	1	2	8	14
“Unspecified”	4	4	9	11	10	38
Total	52	44	66	90	191	443
% due to fever*	33	25	27	33	64	45

^*May be underestimates since some of “Unspecified” deaths may also have been due to fever.