The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-12 00:00:00

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6liti gad are actually donned. and guaranteed to the purchaser ;
John Breeden loolthig tor a fair remuneration en the workmanship
only, which Is charged according to the Intricacy or simplicity of
the pattern.—JOHN BBOODEN, Ooldamith.—Matintactory, 16,
Henriett►-street. Covent-garden, London. Established A. 9.1798.
N.B. Tins establishment Is closed at 6 in the evening, and on
Saturdays at I o'clock.

MESSRS. WATHERSTON and SON
Goldsmiths and Jewelled,.
Rave Ready toe inspection a Great Variety of JEWELLERY,
of the Latest Designs, suitable for
WEDDING PRESENTS and NEW-YEAR'S GIFTS.
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Clair, Thick and Invalid Turtle So always ready at
ST. JANIS'S-HALL, Regent-dreet, PiecadUly.—W. DONALD,
proprietor.

LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC
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.ICVANS," atter the Covent-prdea Pantomime, and the
Theatres.

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BRITANNIA.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12.

THE name, of Jt_mes FEmowsa must be added
to those of the dead paupers TIMOTHY DALY and
RICHARD (MESON. All three were inmates of
metropolitan workhouses, all were sick, all enjoy-
ing the full advantages of the parochial Buten;
and all have suffered shocking deaths through
inefficiency and neglect. In none of these cases
does there seem to be a reasonable doubt that with
proper nursing and suitable food the patient's life
might have been spared; and the question will pre-
sent itself to many minds with renewed force, How
long are our sick poor to be killed off because those
entrusted with the administration of the law ignore
its provisions 4 We have been at some pains to
contrast the treatment of FEta.owEs, in the Beth-
nal•green Workhouse, with the regulations laid
down by the Poor-law Board, and the result is
not a little startling. This pauper was 65 years
of age, was suffering from a bad leg, from rheuma-
tism, and from incipient bronchitis, and was dis-
missed each night from the infiimary, not because
he had recovered wholly or partially from any of
his ailments, not on the authority of the doctor,
or even of the muter, but for the reason that
MARY ANNE EASON, the paid nurse, " wanted his
" bed for some one else." In the daytime, when
official and medical visits are paid, FELLOW Es was
kept in the invalid ward, and was fed on the diet
prescribed for the sick up to the hour of his death.
It was only at sleeping time that the rheumatic,
lame, and emaciated old man was sent into a room
without either light or fire, there to be locked in,
out of reach of assistance, with no means of making
his wants known to any but brother paupers as
helpless as himself, and without any of the neces-
saries essential to his state of health. At 5 o'clock
last Sunday morning he fell out of bed, and died
on the floor. The old men who slept in the beds
near him lifted him up, pronounced him dead,
conferred with the pauper wardsman, a man of 70,
agreed not to attempt to rouse anybody, because,
as was given in evidence, "no one could hear, and
" it's only making a noise for nothing ;" and
finally put the dead or dying man to his bed again,
and waited patiently for the regular hour of open-
ing the ward. Whether FefikwEs was really dead
at the time he was found, or whether the fit was
one from which he would have rallied if
proper remedies had been applied, we are not
told ; but the parish doctor admitted the
treatment he had received to have accelerated his
end, and coroner and jury made fOrmal protest
against the neglect in providing sleeping
accommodation for the sick poor at Bethnal-
green. We learn that out of the 250 pauper
invalids under the care of the nurse EASON,
59 are locked up in cold dark rooms at night,
that no one exercises supervision over them, and
that the change from infirmary to ordinary work-
house ward is effected by this woman assigning
their beds to others, and leaving to a pauper
wardsman the task of finding sleeping places for
them elsewhere.

There is something so saddening in th'i wretched
story, its details are so scandalous, and its end so
shocking, that the regulations for the care of
sick in workhouses read like a bitter satire upon
results. Yet the central authority, upon which re-
sponsibility is supposed to rest, has made it obliga-
tory upon guardians to appoint a visiting commit-
tee, for the purpose of ensuring proper treat-
ment of the sick poor. This committee
is to visit the parish workhouse once at
least in every week, and to report to the
guardians the state of its several wards, and the
condition of their inmates. If any local board
neglects to appoint a visiting committee, or such
committee omit their visit of inspection for three
months, the Poor-law Board is authorised by Act
of Parliament to appoint • paid visitor. Among
the questions to be satisfactorily answered in
writing are :

Is regular attendance given by the medical
officer ?

Are the inmates of the sick wards properly
tended ?
Are the nurses efficient ?

Further, we find among the instructions to nurses,
that the duty of keeping a light in all wards where
sick people sleep is insisted on, so that, theoreti-
cally, such a case as we are commenting on is
simply impossible.

The point, then, for the public to consider ia,
why rules which are apparently thoughtful and
well considered are practically useless. We
refrain from dwelling upon the horrors