The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-27 00:00:00

THE DEATHS FROM CHOLERA

AT TOOTING.

Yesterday Mr. Wakley, M.P., resumed in the board-
room of the Chelsea Workhouse, the adjourned inquest
on Martha Pollington, Mary Kellick, George Hartley,
and Emma logos, children who died in the workhouse
of cholera after their removal from Mr. Drouet'a.

The board-room was crowded, and amongst those
present were Messrs. Bague, R.N., France, and Frond,
magistrates ; Messrs. Rider, Fielder, Roll, &c.,
guardians ; and the Rev. Mr. Irons.
Emma Ingus proved the death of her child from
cholera, and that her child had not a sufficiency of food,
but of which witness was afraid to complain, lest she
might have got her child into trouble.
James Kellick stated that his daughter, the deceased,
and another of his children, had been at Mr. Drouet's,
where they did not get half enough to sat. On one oc-
casion he brought them two allowances of pudding and
bread and butter, which they instantly ate, although
they had only just returned from the dinner-table.
Both children had good health when thuy went to
Tooting. In consequence of Mary's death he discharged
himself, to take away his other child. He saw de-
ceased the day before her death, but she was too weak
to speak. _ _

CORONER—Another child, named Thomas Ridgway
or Hartley, has been buried from this workhouse; has
any parish claimed him? Mr. Sutton, vestry-clerk—
No, sir.

Sir. Whittle, registrar for the Tooting district. de-
posed, that since the 29th of December lio children had
died in Mr. Drouet's from cholera, while not one died of
that complaint in the village, or within the district; and
from the 12th of April to the 29th of December 34 chil-
dren died in Mr. Drouet's of diarrhaa, consumption, and
other diseases.

Dr. Grainger, one of the superintendent medical
officers of the Board of Health, repeated the evidence
which he gave on a previous occasion, and which !re-
braced all the main facts of the truly deplorable inquiry.
Some further evidence having been recei►ed, the ,111 i
quiry was again adjourned.

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THE LONDON MASTER 13AYERS' PENSION SONLITY.
—Yesterday evening the seventeenth annual meeting of
the London Master Bakers' Pension soeiegpiwsihoincehrslans
established for the relief of aged and infirm master
bakers and their widows, was held at th
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secretary,
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Tavern, Bishopsgate, to receive the report for the past
the
year, ending Dec. 31, 1848. There are 41
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