The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-18 00:00:00

BETHNAL-GREEN WORKHOUSE.

Yesterday morning Mr. Formal, Inspector under
the Poor-law Board, resumed in the bard-room of the
Bellinel-green Workhouse tee inquiry relative so the treat-
meet of OldSia fire esesssiatolbpn*lnnes• The MN of
Robert Scully was Was an the nemeses untesl.
Mrs. Cardwell, one of the witnesses. said Qat she van
superintentlest of the women's reeeiving-ward. She had
to receive 15 owns, women and children, oe Monday eight.
Three of them were sink cases. Wittier reported to the
matron that they were sick cues, and that they occupied
the beds of six people. One of the persons vas dropsical.
Mr. Sadleir, relieving officer, said that he was called on
by Robert Scully, and finding that he was destitute and
had Do home, he gave him a ticket of admission on the 9th
instant.

The luspectorsaid that inquiry should always be made,
except in casea of urgency, before relief or admission was
given.
Mr. Sadlair said that be considered the case d Scully an
urgent one ; he had no home.
Mrs. Cardwell continued, and said that the medical
officer was not sent for to see the sick cases. Hs saw
them the next (Tuesday) morning, and plaosd them is the
sick ward. Witares never had to use the cloths' of persons
leaving the hones for those ooming in. She bad an
instrument for measuring the heat of the bath—generally
from 90 to 96 degrees. She had got stimulants in the
middle of the night when eases were brought in requiring
them. She was never refused. Mr. Cardwell bad used her
thermometer, and could have got. is when he wanted it.
Her salary was 101. per annum, with board and lodging.
Her husband's salary was 401.
Stephen Hayward, an inmate of the workhouse, 65 years
of age, wardsman of the reosiving ward, had the deposi-
tions which he made before the coroner now read over to
him. Scully did not take much of hie gruel or any bread.
Witnesa asked him if he was ill, but he could not or did not
answer. Witness thought he was ill, but did not think he
was ill enough to be reported. At three o'clock a change
took place. Witham did nothing. At seven o'clock witness
saw him on the bed lying on his back and his mouth open.
Witness had to do day as well as night duty. It was he
who fetched Scully.' supper. He saw Fleming, a pauper
cook, and asked for gruel. He did not ask for bread.
He did not think of asking for tea. Scully did not ask for
anything.
The Inspector—He could not speak for himself, and you
got bim a worse supper than he otherwise would have got I
Wither —.Not with a bad intention, sir.

The Inspector—l do not say that. 'Your heart may be
good, as I believe Mr. Cardwell's is; but in a workhouse we
want both head and heart. Have others died in the ra
calving wards ?
Witness—Scully makes the eleventh person that died
there. 1 have sometimes dressed persons entering the
house in the clothes of persons leaving the sick wards. That
was not very often.
W. Arthur Thomas was called by the clerk, and said
that he had been paid pantryman for seven months. He
could supply nourishment to a destitute person coming in
at ten o'clock at night to the reeeitiog ward. He could
give tea, arrowroot, butter, gruel or anything of the sort.
He gave up the keys to the master about ten o'clock. He
could, however, get up and supply requisites at say hour
of the night, and he had sometimes so supplied them.
Witness had a pauper assistant named Fleming—a very
steady man.
Tbeobaid Meyrick, master of the workhouse, deposed
that he bad never been refused any stores by the guardians
during the years he had been master. His applications,
when entered in a little book, were always granted. He
had never been short of clothes for males or females.

He was surprised to hear the evidence el to a sick man's
clothes being put on those coming into the house. He
always had plenty of clothes, and he never refused an ap-
plication for any when wauted. It was the duty of Mr.
Peens to apply for clothes.
Miss hley rick (matron) said that she had heard the evidence
of Mrs. Cardwell, and did not crosa•examies her. Witness
knew that there were three cases in the receiving ward re-
quiring separate beds. Witness did not visit them, for they
were not reported as " urgent." Nevertheless, witness would
have visited them only that she had a sprained ankle. Wit-
ness had been matron seven years.
The Inspector said that in every sick case the matron
should visit it. He supposed that but for the sprained
ankle the witness would have done so in this case.
John Pears, examined with reference to the dressing of
paupers in sick people's clothes, sad that oo one occasion
the clothes were not dry, and he saw a 1111/1 leaving. He
said to the incomer, "Take his clothes." But be did not
know the person cams from the sick ward. The stores in
the house were sometimes very low. lie believed that be
mentioned that very case to the master, but he did not
know positively, or when it occurred ; but he knew that
the stores were sometimes deficient. They were deficient
now. He had reported that to the muter on Meader,
and he bad done so before. When clothes were not in
store they were in the laundry, and they would be hurried
up. Witness and the rimmed bad had unpleasantness about
the clothes.
Inspector—le it a matter of frequent occurrence to clothe
a man coming in with the clothes of a man going out
Witham said it did not uccur frequently—net once a
week ; but it happened once in a quarter.
The Inspector—Now, as to a similar matter. A dirty
bath is as bed se • dirty shirt. There is, I know, a groat
deal of typhus among the lower or tramp class.
Typhus ia
a species of plague, and to put two or three persons into
the same wider is to promote the spreading of the con-
tagion. It is, I assure you, and not to you in Bethnal-
green only, a vitally important matter, in respect to the
prevention of disease, to give to every individual clean
water in his bath.
Mr. E. Howard Moore, deputy medical officer to the
workhouse, deposed to the correctness of the depositions
which he made before the coroner, and in which he attri-
buted the deceased's (Scully's) death to disease of the heart,
and admitted that destitution might accelerate death in
such a case.
The Inspector, in closing the inquiry, urged upon the
guardians the advantage of seeding the MO children at
present kept in the workhouse to schools in the country.
Mr. Collins moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Israeli
for the able and impartial manner in which lie bad
conducted the inquiry just concluded. Mr. Ward, in se-
conding the motion, said that the evidence taken that day
by Mr. Parnell would show the exceilent manner in which
Bethnal-gran workhouse was conducted, and how besets.'
was everything said in the papers to the contrary. (Hear,
hear.)
Mr. Pusan said that the best way to earn the approval of
guardians was to do his duty as inspector.
The proceedings then terminated, it being understood
that the Poor-law Board would transmit its decision in the
usual manner to the guardians.

FEVER IN MARYLEBONE.—Yesterday Dr. Lan-
keeter resumed an inquiry at the Bose and Crown, Upper
Lamm-street, Lisson-grove, on the body of lama Brads, 14
years of age, who died on Thursday last in Providence-
place. The inquest was adjourned from Soturday last, in
order that an examination of the place might be made.
Mr. George Benson Baker, the district medical officer, said
he attended the deceased, who was suffering under and
died from typhus fever. He had had twenty-five cases of
typhoid and typhus fever in Providence-place. There
were twenty-four houses inhabited by 198 people, each
house having three rooms. The muse of the disclaim the
withers attributed to the water the people drunk. About
the centre of the court was a tank, and the water for
the supply of the residents was drawn up by means of a
pump. The water supplied was that of the West Middle.
sex Company. Clam to the tank the inhabitants emptied
their slops, which would communicate fever if taken from
houses where persons were suffering from the dimes. The
drippings of the sink filtered into the well, and in that way
witness believed the inhabitants had been poisoned, and the
fever propagated. The room in which deceased died con-
taioed about 1,000 feet of air. Dr. Whitmore, medical
officer of health to the parish of Marylebooe, eorroborated
the hat witness as to the wretched state of Providence-
place, which was calculated to spread serious contagious
disease. The jury returned a special verdict, " That de-
mooed died from typhus fever, generated through dirt, foul
water, and losuffleiset cleansing of the waterckeete." The
proceedings thee closed.
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN.
The following candidates yesterday passed the major
examination se pharmaceutical chemist.:—Laurence R.
Barnes, Prestos ; Henry H. J. Bound, Creditor; Robert
Rowe, Yeovil; Denzil Thomson, Worcester; Almasder
Towerzey, London.
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BRITANNIA.
THIN EVENING, OW DADDY LONGLEG9 AND SIR REGENT
CIRCUS; OR, THE RACE FOR THE GOLDEN APPLES.—
M. and Mdme. Stertmobach.--91gnor Bevanl.-01mar.--Shower
of Golden Rain,—And JESSIE, TILE MORMON'S DAUGHTER.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE.
TRIO DAT Morning, 3h. 2m..... Afternoon, 31%. 20a.
TO-110110W -. Morning, 3h. 3nm.— —Afternoon, 30. 1570.

LONDON, THURSDAY. JANUARY 18.

YESTERDAY morning it was our misfortune to
record one of those grievous and tragic events with
which in these storm-swept islands the imagina-
tion of the public is only too familiar, yet which
out of the depths of calamity and the you agonies
of death, bring to light the noblest qualities of a
seafaring race, and leave a sublime example of
heroism behind. ' The New Year, born in wrath
and violence of sea and sky, craeled, so to
speak, in tempests, the like of which, in wide-
spread havoc and cruelty of persistence, have not
been equalled in our shipping annals for nearly
half a century, has already written upon the
wandering tablet of the treacherous waters,
and in more ineffaceable characters on the
memories of hundreds of destitute homes,
a chapter of terrible sorrow. Seldom has the
fury of the elements ranged over so many
seas and devastated so many shores at once. Not
that it would be inconsistent with what is called
" the law of storms," so far as these destructive
agencies of nature have been reduced by wide in-
duction and accumulated experience to the sem-
blance of a law, that their force should be simulta-
neously felt over widely distant portions of the
earth's surface and vast spaces of the sea. But it
is seldom that we hear, as in these days of hces-
sant and instant communication we are apt to hear,
of such devastation of shipping along lines of op-
posite coasts, and of such huge disasters far off
in the wastes and solitudes of the ocean. From
quarter to quarter, almost from month to month,
we seem to read of whole fleets of colliers and
coasters putting to sea from their northern har-
bours, often in the face of warning signals, and
presently after cast helpless on the quicksands or
the rocks. Lamentable as is the domestic side of
these common stories of English life, we are apt
to dismiss them with the reflection that no doubt
the vessels were ill-found, half-manned, and unsea-
worthy, and that the fatal recklessness of the
masters and crews was much to blame. Occasion-
ally we are somewhat more startled by the news
of a passenger emigrant ship stranded on a shoal,
or burnt at sea, or perhaps of some first-class
outward bound ship from Liverpool or London,
driven on a leo shore and split to pieces on the
rocks within a week of her departure. Some-
times, as in the memorable case of the Royal
Charter, it is a great ship, lost with all her com-
pany on her return voyage within earshot of
home. " Shipa missing" is but the title of an
ordinary paragraph in a corner of the newspaper.
Familiarity obscures from us the full meaning of
sea-risks, if it does not harden our compassion for
the sufferers. England gives hourly so many
hostages to the mercy of the winds and waves that
she scarcely seems to miss enough those who never
come back.

These overwhelming gales, however, with which
the New Year opened, and which have not yet
ceased, have been marked by more than one result
which will certainly arrest the attention of the
future annalist. The wreck of thirty vessels all
at one fell swoop in Torbay—the wild sea crowded
with the poor men struggling to the shore—the
farms and public buildings full of the survivors—
the seamen of ships "put back " at Liverpool, re-
fusing to go to sea again, and choosing rrther to
go to prison—the loss here and there of a lifeboat
in the desperate service of rescuing men from ascain
which no ship could live—these are exceptional
incidents of a month of gales. Of course, as it
always happens, most sea losses and most sea
risks are of vessels nearing or just leaving land.
It is seldom that a ship tolerably well found, well
manned, and well handled comes to grief where
there is plenty of sea room. It must go hard
with such a ship if she can neither lay to nor ran
before the gale. When a ship goes down in the
open sea it is almost always because she has sprung
a leak. This may be tbe effect of violent straining
and labouring ; but it is a very rare occurrence
when a sufficiently well-found ship is actually '
beaten and destroyed by the sheer force of wind
and waves. Yet such appears to have been literally
the fate of the passenger steamship London, the
news of whose loss saddened and astonished this
country yesterday. The London, 1,752 tons
register, 800 horse-power, was one of the finest
passenger ships out of the port of London, and
belonged to one of the oldest-established and the
most justly-renowned of our shipping firms. She
was launched at Blackwell only the year before
last. She had already made two most successful
voyages to Melbourne, one in 59 days, under one
of the ablest and most experienced and respected
commanders in the mercantile marine, the senior
captain of Messrs. MoNsit WIGELA3I'S Austra-