Catholic leader seeks Irish probe into mass graves

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13. I think it was 22 death per year or 1.8 per month on average:

Using the IT figures I get 796 deaths / 36 years /12 months per year = an average of 1.84 deaths per month. Tragic, but under the circumstances not surprising and certainly not criminal. The nature of the burials has according to Corless been "widely misrepresnted" per IT:

Even if a number of children are indeed interred in what was once a sewage tank, horrific as that thought is, there cannot be 796 of them. The public water scheme came to Tuam in 1937. Between 1925, when the home opened, and 1937 the tank remained in use. During that period 204 children died at the home. Corless admits that it now seems impossible to her that more than 200 bodies could have been put in a working sewage tank.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/tuam-mother-and-baby-home-the-trouble-with-the-septic-tank-story-1.1823393?page=3

Regarding the Guardian, BBC, and the rest of the UK press, it's not exactly surprising that another Irish horror tale getting international headlines turns out on examination to be "misrepresented." Yes, the shoe fits, and naturally gets 200 recs in LBN and GD.