The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-07 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.-11Ieadow hay, £3 Os to £4 15s Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 14s per load.
Trade dull.

CUMBEILLAND.•—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4lss Od ; clover,
£4 Os to 15s Od ; and straw, £l:4s to £1 14s per load.
Demand inactive.

WHITECHAPEL,—Meadow hay, Os to £4 15s ; clover
£4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 14s per load,
A slow sale.

Fearful Accident at Sea to a Drogheda
Steamer,

Fortunately, for the remaining portion of the
passengers, at this moment the screw steamship
Torch, on her voyage from Liverpool to Dublin,
hove in sight, and having been signalled at once
replied, and bore down to the Leinster Lass, and
without delay got the disabled vessel in tow and
brought her into harbour. It is believed that the
watertight compartments of the Leinster Lass
saved her from becoming an entire wreck.
[We should state that the accounts of this
accident which reached Dublin and Drogheda in
the course of last evening mention the number of
persons lost as five, which we sincerely hope may
prove to be the correct statement.—ED. F. J.]

THE TREATMENT OF THE POOR IN
BETHNAL. GREEN,

OFFICIAL POOR-LAW INQUIRY.

Yesterday morning Mr Farnall resumed the Poor-law
investigation at the Bethnal-green Workhouse, Waterloo-
road, Victoria-park.
The case of Mary Ann Anfield was proceeded with.
Mrs Klumb was sworn—She was nurse when Mary Ann
Anfield was in the infirmary. Mr Smart had charge of all
the patients in the infirmary. In witness's side of the in-
firmary there were about 210 or 250 persons, male and
female. Mr Smart said that altogether there were about
300. The witness said that quite half of those persons were
aged; the rest were labouring under disease. Mr Smart
came every day; sometimes he came twice or three times a
day. Mrs Anfield was in the house about three weeks, and
the doctor saw her daily. She considered the dietaries to be
on a very liberal scale. Witness as a nurse knew that pa-
tients often were fastidious. They rejected food, but it was
because of the badness of their stomachs, and not because
anything was wrong with the food. If anything was wrong
witness could always remedy it. The guardians came
through the wards every week, and there was a printed
notice over the mantel-shelf, to the effect that the patients
could make any complaints to them. When Mrs Anfield
first came in she could eat her meals well. Witness was
present when Mr Smart asked her what she could eat. She
said whatever the doctors liked to give her. Witness fancied
he ordered cooked (boiled) mutton.
Mr Smart said in his evidence yesterday he was misun-
derstood to say the woman said she could eat nothing, and
that he ordered her No. 3 diet. She had told him she could
eat mutton, and he then ordered her No. 3 diet, which con-
sistel principally of boiled mutton.
Mrs Klumb said the deceased's appetite failed on the
Wednesday before her death, which occurred on Sunday,
the 27th March. She had convulsions of short duration on
the Sunday morning before death. When her appetite failed
witness gave her arrowroot and beef•tea, and she took them
and a little toast until the Saturday night before her death,
Mrs Anfield never had coffee. She used to call her tea coffee.
Mr Howard said that Mr Gant had found coffee in de-
ceased's stomach at the post-mortem examination.
Ann Burney said she had been an inmate of the work-
house, but she now gained her living out of the house. She
was the assistant nurse in the ward when Mrs Anfield was
in the infirmary. She (deceased) ate her food very well for
a fortnight, and then her appetite fell off. Witness never
was ordered to give her beef tea or arrowroot, but witness
saw her take some given to her by another patient. Witness
never reported the state she was in to the head nurse.
The Commissioner said that this was another instance of
the inutility of unpaid servants.
The witness said that she gave deceased the arrowroot
and beef-tea that Mrs Woods could not take.
The Commissioner said it was clear that Mrs Woods, out
of kindness, gave portions of her arrowroot and beef-tea to
Mrs Anfield, and that the matron did not report or get for
the latter what she could eat.
,Mrs Klumb recalled, said that she would still swear that
she gaye the assistant an order for arrowroot and beef-tea
.lied to Mrs, Anfield. Witness gave mutton every
dayto be 8U
toto the Saturday, independent of the
beef-tea and arruswroot she ordered Burney to give her.
Mrsi' toifield up
Here the dietary book was produced, and it showed that
the mutton had been given up to Saturday.
Mr Burney said that otter patients had sometimes more
than they could take, and she gave some of it to those that
liked it. it was not on the card fer Anfield to get it; but
witness told Mrs Klumb she gave Anfield beef-tea from
another patient, and Mrs Klumb said to witness, " Let her
have what she likes to take." 'Mrs Anfield Sometimes de-
clined to take the beef-tea, &c., on account of he? stomach,
Witness did not report that to Mrs Klumb. On the Satur-
day before her death witness first told Dr. Smart that her
appetite was so bad.
Aaron Anfield did not question either of the witnesses,
but he replied that his wife told him she got no nourish-
ment but what another patient gave her out of kind-
ness.

In reply to the Commissioner, the witness said that his
house had four rooms and a kitchen, and the rent was 78 a
week. Himself, his daughter, and his two children—one
aged 13 and the other six—lived there. His daughter was
not married, but lived with a cabman under the same roof.
Witness did not include her earnings in the 20s a week.
Mrs Mary Clay, a neighbour of the Anitald's, said that
on Monday (the 29th of February) she accompanied Mrs
Anfield to the workhouse. Mr Cardwell said the note
she produced was not an admission order, and told her
to go to another gate. There the witness asked the person
who let them in to let Mrs Anfield sit down, but he would
not do so. He asked for a chair as Mrs Anfield was very
ill, but this was refused.
Mr Cardwell said that he had no questions to put to the
witness, but he still adhered to his statement of the previous
day.

Mr C. A, C4kristey was then sworn. He said that he had
not a recollection of the husband's getting relief, but he
thought he had given him an order for Dr Moore. Hid
memory was bad.

Dr. E. Moore said that he had attended the deceased
woman as an out-patient of the parish at her own house.
She was suffering from a:cold, and she was in bed in a small
room with a quantity of damp clothes drying on lines over
her head. He thought it would be very desirable that she
should be removed into the infirmary.
The Commissioner said that he found the poor had in a
great degree a preference for their own homes over the work-
house infirmary. He believed that if there were an infir-
mary not called the workhouse in the neighbourhood, the
poor would never have any objection to enter it.
The witness said that he had no doubt of it. He said
he gave a recommendation for the deceased woman to be
admitted to the infirmary. On the Monday night her
daughter came to him and said she had been refused admis-
sion, and asked for an order for nourishment. Witness gave
an order for milk, wine, arrowroot, and beef for beef tea.
Witness was subsequently present at and took part in the
post-mortem examination. Witness considered the cause
of death to be congestion of the lungs. He did not consider
that congestion arose from starvation; but that she had had
inflammation of the lungs from cold previously. Witness
told Mr Gant he did not think starvation had caused the
congestion, but Mr Gant thought differently. Two or
dthecreeeasepdersodnied, persons metand tthooldwhittnm of witness in
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workhouse gates, and that she had been ref used nourish-
ment. At their request he referred them to the beadle,
who declined to interfere, as he had been scolded by the
guardians for getting up inquests. The witness wrote to
the coroner.
The guardians present complained much that the inquest
should have been held when the husband did not wish it,
Aaron infield said, in answer to Mr. Collins, that he did
not want the inquest.
The Commissioner said that if an inquest was necessary,
the wishes of the survivors could not always be consulted.
The present discussion was, therefore, without use.
The case of Mary Ann Anfield was then declared closed.
The Commissioner then proceeded to investigate a charge
of alleged cruelty against Mr. W. Rai:iceman, a relieving
officer, in reference to a poor family named White, residing
at No. 19, Crabtree-row, Weatherhead••gardens, Bethnal-
green, and after several witnesses had been exerained, the
proceedings were again adjourned.

APPREHENDED LOSS OF 60 PASSENGERS.
(From the Freeman's Journal.)
HOLYHEAD, Thursday Evening.
The steamship Leinster Lass, belonging to the
port of Drogheda, and sailing between that port
and Liverpool, between one and two o'clock this
morning, when about four miles to the north of
the Sherries Light, broke her pisten rod. No sooner
had the piston smashed than, with irresistible force
and a tremendous crash, it shot through the cylin-
der and broke through the ship's bottom. The
engine-room and between decks were at once
swamped; and when I remind you that there were
between 250 and 300 emigrants on board, and the
time the dead dark of the night, you and your
readers can better imagine the scene of confusion,
tumult, and alarm which prevailed than I can con-
vey it. It is, however, easy to picture to one's
self what must have occurred. It is feared the men
attending in the engine-room were at once
drowned by the sudden inundation, and that
some of the emigrants were also lost even on
board the vessel. Orders were given to lower the
boats ; but no sooner was the command made than
crowds of the emigrants, actuated by the common
impulse of self-preservation, crowded the boats.
The consequence, of course, was that, being over-
crowded, they were immediately swamped, and it
Is believed that by this accident no less than fifty
emigrants were drowned. I have also been in-
formed that the fastenings of the boats having been
overtaxed by the numbers who flocked into them
gave way, precipitating those in them into the
water.