the Irish fever

the Irish fever
   typhus
   The disease was endemic in 19th-century Dublin slums, many of which, prior to the forced Union in 1801 with England, Scotland, and Wales, had been town houses of an elegant capital:
    Irish slums were graphically illustrated in the Builder, typhus was known as the 'Irish fever'. (R. F. Foster, 1988)

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