Requesting formation of Board of Health, Ballymoney 1847. ‘Town of Ballymoney./To William Orr Esq., Chairman of/Commissioners/We, the undersigned inha…

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Requesting formation of Board of Health, Ballymoney 1847. 'Town of Ballymoney./To William Orr Esq., Chairman of/Commissioners/We, the undersigned inhabitants, request you will convene/A Town Meeting,/at an early day, to take into consideration the propriety of forming a/Board of Health.../Meeting of the inhabitants of Ballymoney,/in the Market-House,/On Monday next, 31 May,/...Dated this 28th May 1847..' plan to give poor work, e.g. stone breaking, to lessen their suffering and 'promote a spirit of dependence on their own exertions'