The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-11 00:00:00

DEATHS

On the Bth inst., at his residence, Edea House, Anfield, Mr. Jos.
e r es •n, aged 53 years.
en the Bth inst., Mr. Antheny Mackenzie, licensed victualler,
Dale street.
On the plh inst., at his residence, Moss Cottage, West Derby
Mr. William Lea, aged 93 years.
On the 10th inst., at his residence, High Park •street, Mr. Robert
Joseph Atherton Houlbrave.

,73- Births, !if arriages, and Deaths, are only inserted when sent

to our bake duly ituthentiCated.

RAILWAYS AT ROME.—The railroad between Rome and
Civita Vecchia has at length been actually commenced, and
the company who have undertaken it are showing- some
alacrity in carrying it into execution. Slx hundred work-
men have bean set to work upon the line, and have broken
grouni in earliest in two places. three hundred are employed
in the neighbourhood of Civita Vecchia, the rest at St.
Levera, near Palo. The contractors engage to have the
whole line complete& within a period of eighteen months.—
Weekly Register.
Ares reatous DEATH' OF a LADY OF FORTUNE.—Oa Wed-
nesday Mr. Wakley concluded a lengthened inquest at the
Three Jolly Gardeners, Hammersmith, on the death of
Mrs. Catherine Blythe, aged 72, which took place under
painful circumstances. A post mortem examination had
been made, and the jury viewed the body at deceased's
late residence, Rose Cottage. It was fearfully emaciated,
and the back and sides covered with sores. The coroner
said he had never seen so sickening a sight. The
deceased's husband, an elderly, gentlemanly looking
man, deposed that the deceased had been confined to
her room for one month before her decease, and for a
fortnight prior to that period she had been unable to
turn in her bed. She was 72 years of age. Witness
was formerly a wino merchant at Retford, near Not-
tingham. The deceased was very eccentric in her habits,
and she refused time after time to have medical
assistance or any other aid. About four months before
her death, her brother, a medical man, came from the
country, and saw her for half an hour. There was no
medical man, nurse, or charwoman in attendance on her
throughout her illness, the only person in the house being
himself (witness.) Thoaleceased had £5,000 in the funds,
and by a will made in 1848, she made the interest over to
him at her death. The solicitor who drew up the will was
Mr. Grover, of Bedford-row. It further appeared that
when the witness found the deceased dead, he sent for a
female residing in the neighbourhood to lay out the corpse ;
and, instead of a me Heal gentleman residing next door, he
sent for Mr. Hunt, a surgeon residing in Bridge-road. He
also procured a certificate of death from his brother-in-
law, residing near Birmingham, but this the registrar, Mr.
Royce, refusing to receive, the enquiry was rendered
indispensable. Elizabeth Cure, charwoman, said that on
the 16th ult. she was sent for to lay out the deceased.
The body was in a very bad state, but it was encased in
flannel, and the bed and bed clothes were good. The
bedding, however, did not appear to have been changed for
some time. Mr. W. 0. Jones, resident medical officer at
the University Hospital, said he macro a post mortem
examination. The body was extremely emaciated. There
was a fracture on the left hip joint bone, through a
sloughing sore. The fracture he considered was post
mortem. There was another sloughing sore between the
leadebone of the leftlside, and another less sloughing over
the back of the bladebone. The parts around were dusky
and congested as if the sore were extending. There was
also angular curvature of the spine threughout the dorsal
vertebrae, but this was of some years standing. There
were no signs of poison. Death arose from disease of the
kidneys, accelerated by the extensive sloughing. Such
bed sores were always discreditable to the parties who
were responsible for taking care of the patient during
illness. Mr. Hunt, surgeon, corroborated the above
evidence. Mr. W. Mimes. half-brother to the deceased,
said he was a surgeon. He wrote the certificate (pro-
duced) at Mr. Blythe's request. He had not seen the
deceased for six mouths previously. Deceased was of
very eccentric habits. He was induced to come to town
in June last by a letter from Mr. Blythe, dated June 23d,
1855, saying that deceased was " fast approaching the
bourne of her earthly career." He accordingly called on
her, and she refused to adopt any medical treatment. She
was then in a declining istate, and he did not think that
she could live more than a month. She had been married
to Mr. Blythe for thirty years. He considered her
capable of judging for herself. She was not in want. Mr.
Wakley, alter recapitulating some principal points, said
So far back as June, 1856, the deceased's husband was
seeking for a certificate of the deceased'sedeatheand yet
without her haying .any medical or any other kind of
treatment, she lingered on until last January : the ques-
tion, therefore, being how much longer she would have
lived had she had proper medical assistance. The
deceased's husband does not see that she receives this
assistance, and, literally speaking, the poor creature,
with property to the amount of £5.000 in the bank, is
allowed to lie and rot in her bed. The jury would have
to consider the cause of her death, and whether the
wounds which accelerated her death had been caused by
want of • proper nursing andteare: The jury returned a
verdict—" That the jury are unanimously of opinion that
Catherine Blythe died from the mortal effects of a natural
disease of the kidneys and brain, but that death was
accelerated by the want of medical attention and proper
nursing."—The inquiry then:terminated.