Doctor Deaths in the Famine

During the famine doctors cared that many of their number were dying. the collected data and wrote up their findings in the The Dublin quarterly journal of medical science Volume 5, 1848. in the section Art. VII. — On the Mortality of Medical Practitioners in Ireland. Second Article. By James William Cusack, M. D. President of the Royal College of Surgeons, and William Stokes, M. D., Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Dublin.

These data tables seem never to have been graphed before. But now using OCR it is really easy to extract the data. Here for the first time ever is graphs of what doctors recorded as killing them

A python notebook to make these is here and data here.