The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-10 00:00:00

THE DEATH OF A PAUPER IN ST. GILES'S.

The inquiry relative to the death of Richard
Gibson, in the workhouse of St. Giles, wee resented by Mr.
Fantail at the board-room of the vestry on Friday. The
examination of Felix M•Gee, • pauper inmate, wee con-
tinued. He stated that the nunes ocessioally got tipsy,
but be had never complained of it to the governor, on
account of the great power possessed by the heed none.
Mn.s Eleom, paid nurse of the infirmaries, was called, and
deposed that she is :he bead and only paid nurse in the
infirmary. She has held her place for twenty-five years,
and has 201. a year and rations. There are seven
wards, of which she baa the whole can ; • pauper
nurse and a pauper helper acting in each ward
seder her direction& The doctor "gave his orders,"
and she "carried them in her head," She, in her turn, left
the pauper numb to themselves, and what sort of care the
patients got between them is painfully evident. These are
her admiwrioes with regard to Gibson :—" She recollected
Gibson coming into the infirmary, and had visited him with
the doctor. She had beard the doctor order dressings to
the son leg of the patient ; but she had never seen the
order earned out. She was not aware that Gibsoe's bed
wu not made for dye nights and days. She never sew
that Gibson's hair and beard were matted ; but the corner
where he lay wee very dark, so she never noticed whether
or not his person was filthy. It was the duty of the pauper
nurse. to change the bed and body linen, and deceased
might have worn • shirt for a fortnight without witness
knowing it. Lastly, she allowed that she saw vermin
on the deceased the Monday before be died."
The uniform absence of any supervision of the pauper
nurses, and their uniformly grew misconduct, are estab-
lished by the name evidence. She did not know," it
seemed, anything about theta, whether they sold their
miserable can to patients who could give them odd pence
and halfwits°, with which to get drunk, or whether they
bought or exchanged the intimate food. "Some of thim
did get tipsy when they went out ;" "they did get
something to drink in the wards ;" and what they got is
very plain. " They had the distribution of the hear, and she
could not say how much of it was distributed among the
nurses and bow mush among the patients." The wader
is, Mr. Fantail said, that they were ever sober. The patients
bad three meals • day, at 8 o'clock, 12 o'clock, sad 4 o'clock
but from 4 o'clock in the afternoon of one day to 8 o'clock
in the morning of the next day, or foe dense boars, they
bad nothing. to eat Gibson's ward was underground, sad
was called, in • sort of mockery, " • convaleviceet ward."
"It bad been closed," said the medical °Meer, "several
years since, because it as ill-lighted and ill-ventilated,
aad was re-opened about a year and • half sines, en the re-
eurrence of epidentie dneases." In the winter there wore
42 cases of typhise in the hones at one time. Three nuns,
died ; the matron was near death ; the head doctor hae
only lately recovered ; se assistant nurse has also died, and
two days after Gibsee'sdeeth the second doctor wee abed
with Wade.. The Inquiry is for the prompt odjoarned until
Mr. Craig, the doctor who bad charge of Gibson, hes go.
coveted from his Mau

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