The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-11-10 00:00:00

LIFE AND DEATH IN _ LONDON.

A shocking state of immorality and destitution exist-
ing in Bloomsbury, London, was brought to light
on Saturday at an imiuest held on the body of Anne
Hall, aged twentydne years. The unfortunate de'
ceased lived with a man named Allen, and it appeared
from the evidence that both parties had lived with
each other as man and wife since they were a little
over ten years of age. Four years ago the deceased
was delivered of a child in the St. Giles'. Workhouse,
and about a fortnight since she gave birth to a child,
being unattended by doctor or midwife. Immediately
after her illness the deceased got out of bed, and,
without shoe or stocking, went down stairs to a wet
cellar in which she washed her child's clothes. Having
been taken ill, Dr. Barrett, medical etlicer of the St.
Gil.'a Workhouse, was sent for, and in his evidence
he thus described the state in which he found the un•
happy woman
When I saw the deceased on Monday I found her in &moat
fearful state or destitution. There was not • table in the
room, or a chair, or a substitute for a chidr. She was lying,
dresaed in rags, on a bed, which was literally a bundle of
rags She was airy had, and I asked her to go into the
workhouse, but she would not do so. There was not a mor-
sel of tiring in the room, nor anythirg to conduce to the
c imfort of the le,as«,i. tin the Tuesday she was taken
into the workhouse, and died in two and a half hours after
her admission.

A neighbour said that the deceased stated, when
asked to go into tbc workhouse, that he would rather
die than enter it. The coroner said the case seemed to
be one almost of suicide, because here was a woman
who actually died from want of that care and attention
which she could have had, but which she refused to
avail herself of.

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The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the
medical testimony, to the effect that the deceased died
from inflammation of the outgo, brought on by the
deceased exposing herself after her confinement, and
that her death war accelerated by want of proper care
and attendance.

ARRANGEMENTS FOR DISTRIBUTING
THE GOSPEL IN FRANCE.
The Morning Acirrrtiser states that at the forth-
coming Paris Exhibition space has been allotted by
the French Imperial Commission to the Bible Society
of France in the park surrounding the building ; and
with this society the committee of the "Bible Stand"
at the Crystal Palace and at the Exhibition of 181k2
have made arrangements, and purpose erecting a large
stand, permission buying also been granted to circulate
the Scriptures in French, Italian. German, Soanish,
Russian, English, Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, kc. It
is proposed to distribute the four Gospels in small
books, as also the Acts of the Apostles and Epistle to
the Romans, Sze., in the above several languages to the
people freely. The S Tiptures cirJulatell are to be if
the authorized Protestant version. (This refers, we
must suppose, to the English hooks only.) The books
will cost about 2/. 10s. per 1,000, and, judging from the
extent of the work in London in 1882, it is not impro-
bable that 11,000,000 may he required, which will • oat
5,0001., in addition to which about 1,000/. is requisite
to defray the expense of the stand and for the payment
of eight or ten helpers. For this purpose the come
mitte are now making an appeal