Hi Listers, I am joining the list again temporarily to tell you that I have completed the admission records for the public hospital (Charity Hospital) for the months of July and August 1851 in New Orleans.  As I have told the list on previous occasions, New Orleans was one of the largest points of entry for the Irish into the United States.  Because of its location on the Mississippi River, the Irish who came to the US through the Port of New Orleans had access to cities further upriver, and cities on the Ohio and Missouri Rivers, such as St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Louisville. The public hospital admissions were mainly Irish who could not afford to pay for private medical care.  July and August were especially bad.  At that time, New Orleans was little more than a large swamp, and the summer months with all the rain an humidity were ideal for breeding mosquitos which carried many types of diseases.  In fact, many of the Irish were imported to New Orleans in the mid 1800s to drain the swamps to provide more habitable land.  A slave was worth money, so the worthless Irish were used by the thousans instead.  Many worked digging drainage canals filled with mosquitos - some were buried into the walls of the canals right where they dropped dead. In the past, I have posted the names of the patients from this county on this list, just in case anyone sees someone they recognize.  In my opinion, these hospital lists are some of the most uner-appreciate sources of genealogical information there are. If you see someone on the list you'd like to know more about, please visit the web sites for July and August 1851 on the Orleans Parish (New Orleans) rootsweb site at: <A HREF="ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/charityhos/chajul51.txt">ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/charityhos/chajul51.txt</A> and <A HREF="ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/charityhos/chaaug51.txt">ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/charityhos/chaaug51.txt</A> If these links stretch over two lines, you will have to type them into your browser by hand.  Else, you could go to the homepage and follow the links under hospital records.  The homepage is located at: <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/orleans.htm">Orleans Parish Archives</A> or <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/orleans.htm">http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/orleans.htm</A> If the links don't work, please type them in by hand into your browser. Here are the names from Co. Waterford in the July and August 1851 Charity Hospital admission records for New Orleans.  Please ignore any references to See such and such a page - or the marks *^~ by some of the names.  The former just mean the person was in the hospital at some earlier time, and you should check the records for more info on the earlier date.  The latter marks are footnotes relating to the admission. Admission Date, Date of Death, Date of Discharge, Ward, Name, Occupation, Age 5-Jul -- 5-Jul 7 Gabriel Roney Laborer 36 5-Jul -- 15-Jul 33 William Kiley Laborer 20 6-Jul -- 14-Nov 4 Michael O'Connell Laborer 43 7-Jul -- 15-Jul 34 Catharine Shehan 17 8-Jul -- 14-Jul 13 William Garvey Laborer 32 9-Jul -- 12-Jul 34 Mary Tobin 19 11-Jul -- 31-Jul 31 Thomas Kaine Laborer 29 14-Jul -- 17-Jul 12 Richard Mooney Laborer 24 14-Jul -- 26-Jul 3 Joseph O Neil Clerk 28 15-Jul -- 21-Jul 23 Michael Morrissy Laborer 49 15-Jul -- 27-Jul 36 Margaret Foley born Kennedy 26 18-Jul -- 23-Jul 36 Mary Welch born Hagan 30 18-Jul -- 28-Jul 35 Mary Baldwin born Powers -- 20-Jul -- 26-Jul 12 Patrick Powers Cab Driver 36 20-Jul 25-Jul -- 20 Thos Lawler -- 21-Jul 4-Aug -- 23 William Kiley Laborer 36 22-Jul -- 3-Aug 34 Ellen Power 20 22-Jul -- 17-Nov 31 William O'Brian Laborer 36 23-Jul -- 28-Jul 28 John Murphy Plasterer 21 23-Jul -- 31-Jul 20 William Gavin Laborer 33 29-Jul -- 2-Aug 37 Johanna Connelly 18 31-Jul -- 9-Aug 31 Michael Morrissy Laborer 49 1-Aug -- 7-Aug 6 John Quinlan Laborer 35 6-Aug -- 10-Aug 6 Patrick McGrath Laborer 20 7-Aug -- 12-Aug 12 James Cantwell Laborer 18 7-Aug -- 13-Aug 26 James O'Neil St Btman 25 8-Aug -- 28-Aug 6 Morris Hackett 28 8-Aug -- 16-Sep 36 Mary Rowney 32 9-Aug -- 13-Aug 3 John Corcoran Laborer 25 9-Aug -- 17-Aug 36 Elizabeth Vail 20 13-Aug -- 19-Aug 39~~~ John Sinnott StBtman 26 14-Aug -- 16-Aug 24 Thomas Tooley Laborer 32 14-Aug -- 22-Aug 34 Anasthesia Shanahan 44 15-Aug -- 21-Aug 37 Mary Hartford 54 15-Aug -- 1-Sep 7 Philip Powers Sailor 35 16-Aug -- 24-Aug 15 Thomas Cummons Laborer 27 18-Aug -- 25-Aug 23 Michael Noonan Seaman 30 19-Aug -- 19-Sep 4 Martin Lahy Laborer 25 24-Aug -- 25-Aug 36 Mary Welch 21 25-Aug -- 27-Aug 36 Johanna Shea 20 26-Aug -- 27-Aug 34 Mary Welch See page 262.* 21 27-Aug -- 31-Aug 35 Catharine Narby born Bryan 21 27-Aug -- 1-Sep 3 William D. Kelly Bar Keeper 22 27-Aug -- 5-Sep 16 Thomas Hays Laborer 29 29-Aug -- 2-Sep 22 Michael Mahoney 29 30-Aug -- 4-Sep 25 John Murphy Laborer 24 While you are at it, please check out our site.  Over the last three years, we have posted all the birth, marriage, and death indexes for Orleans Parish (New Orleans) held at the State Archives in Baton Rouge, LA.  We figured this out as 2.2 million names.  We also have complete city directories onlin, listed by name and then separately by address.  We have over ten thousand obits, lists of victims of yellow fever epidemics, cemetery records, and much more. Happy Hunting. Colleen Fitzpatrick Orleans Parish (New Orleans) Rootsweb CoCoordinator <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/orleans.htm">Orleans Parish Archives</A>