The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-19 00:00:00

UNION TREATMENT.

Yesterday Mr. T. Wakley, M.P., Coroner, and a
jury empanelled on Saturday last, at the One Tun
public-house, Old Brentford, resumed an inquiry
into the circumstances attendant upon the death of
John Shaw, aged 22 years, who died in the work-
house of the Eton 'Union, at Slough, Bucks,
from the effects of injuries he had received by a
fall of earth, and who, it is alleged, was much ne-
glected. John Peverall deposed that he was a
pauper inmate of the Eton Union workhouse, at
Slough, and for seven years had been nurse in the
men's sick ward. Deceased was brought to that work-
house on the afternoon of last Saturday six weeks,
having been injured by an accident owing to an
abatement of earth which had fallen on him while
excavating for the foundation of some cellars at Slough.
Deceased was accompanied by Mr. Nobland, a sur-
geon, of Windsor, who was passing at the time. Mr.
Hammond, the surgeon of the Union, saw deceased
next day, and continued to attend him up to his
death, which took place on the night of Wednesday,
the 12th instant, about half an hour after midnight.
The day that deceased was brought in Mr. Bryan,
another surgeon, set his leg, and deceased re-
peatedly declared to witness that he was sa-
tisfied with the treatment he received while
in the workhouse. After a very extended
examination, Mr. Seers, the master of the
deceased, deposed that the deceased told him
that for the first three weeks he was quite starving,
and consequently, although contrary to the rules, he
took him food. Deceased also told him that after Mr.
Bryan had seen him on the Monday night, no medical
man saw him until the union surgeon came on the
Friday morning, when he became much easier. Wit-
ness gave deceased money, as he said other men had
victuals which they could not eat, which he would
buy of them, as he was so !hungry. Since deceased's
death the master had asked him to pay for the porter
and wine deceased had had the last two or three days
of his life, as witness had said he would send deceased
some nourishment. Mr. Wakley said, after that evi-
dence, the case must be adjourned, for the attendance
of Mr. Hammond, and other witnesses. The inquiry
was then adjourned for a week.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS
The following are the results of "A Table of Mortality
in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from
all Causes registered in the Week ending Saturday, the
14th of September,llB44." The Tablelis issued from the Office
of the Registrar-General :
Weekly
CAUSES OF DEATH. Total. Average of
Five years.
Epidemie,Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 236 178
Diseases of variable or uncertain seat B4 111
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 132 157
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration i 197 286
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 2l 21
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 7 5
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 9 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 7 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c 1 1
Old Age, or Natural Decay 55 71
By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance
Causes specified
Deaths from all Causes ......
DEATHS FROM THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED UNDER

TEE ABOVE BEADS.

Weekly Average
Total. of Five Years.
Consumption
Scarlatina 7O 34
Pneumonia ..........
Dropsy .. ... .. .. ............
Hooping Cough .... ....... ..
Typhus
Small Pox 37 15
Disease of the Heart
Measles lB 28
Apoplexy
Diseases of the Brain ll 9
Diarrhoea..
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Sudden Deaths 7 15
DISTRICTS.

West ....,
North..
Central.,
East ... .
South...

135 138
172 171
178 188
.... 175 207
183 242

Total .

~ 843

STATE OV FIELD-LANE AND ITS VICINITY.—In the
evidence given before the Commissioners for inquiry into
the state of large towns and populous districts, lately
published by Dr. C. J. B. Aldis, physician to the Far-
riugdon Dispensary, he says, " In the neighbourhood of
Field-lane some persons have not even cesspools orprivies,
all their excrements are thrown into a little back yard,
where they are allowed to accumulate for months
together ; others have a cesspool, but it is not pro-
vided with a drain, so that the excrements run into
courts or streets, where they remain till a shower of
rain washes them into the gutter. Such are the places
we:are called upon most frequently to visit. One
woman informed me to-day that her husband lay dead,
and that she could not obtain water without the greatest
difficulty to was his rags.' I went into her room, and
found her husband lying dead in a coffin ; the room was
small, dark, and dirty, and occupied by six children, in
addition to the father and mother. Another female re-
presented the place to be stinking alive' for want of
water. The courts in Field-lane are low and ill-ventilated,
leading to backyards and houses. The yards are strewed
with decayed vegetables, dust heaps, dung, human excre-
ments, and other putrescent substances. In one yard
I have noticed some pigs. I find the cesspools imper-
fectly covered, and the privies in a most filthy condition.
All this must necessarily occasion effluvial poisons. Red
Lion-court, Saffron-hill, is quite unfit for human beings
to dwell in. One yard especially, pointed out to me,
was filled with a mass of putridity. Other sources of
unhealthiness may arise from the knackers' yards, in one
of which I was informed that 60 horses were slaughtered
weekly. Different kinds of animals are skinned here,
and the bones boiled, which occasion a sickening smell,
and heaps of bones may be seen in the yard, the wash-
ings from which, with the offal from the animals, are
thrown into the Fleet-ditch."
D'AUDIGNIC REPRIMANDED.—MonsieIIr Guizot has
undertaken to order Captain Bruat to reprimand M.
D'Aubigny for his conduct to Pritchard. The solemnity
will, we understand, be performed in the following
manner:—Bruat will be seated at a table with bottles
and glasses before him. He will then order D'Aubigny
to be brought into his presence. Bruat will then rise,
and with great sternness address the prisoner, thus—
M. D'Aubigny, it is my painful duty to severely re-
primand you—and you are reprimanded accordingly
(D'Aubigny bows). Now, comrade, sit down (pushes
the bottles). Chateau Margaux or Lafitte? D'.Aubigny
—Lafitte. Bruat (filling)—" Tringuous ! Ala gloire de
France !" And, until a late hour in the evening,
D'Aubigny continues to be remanded.—Punch.
STRIKE or SIIIPCARPENTERS. SUNDERLAND,
SEPT..I7.—The ship-carpenters of this port have struck
for an advance of wages. At present there wages are
18s. per week, and they request that these wages (which
it must be admitted are very low) should be raised to
21s. For the last three or four years ship-building.at
this and the neighbouring towns has been in a
greatly depressed state—so much so, that the wages
of carpenters declined from 30s. and upwards down to
18s. and even to 16s. per week. Many ship-builders were
either ruined or voluntarily closed their yards, and indeed
laft year there were scarcely even a dozen ships upon the
Mocks at a time in this port, which was at once cele-
brated as the first ship-building port in the world. At the
commencement of this year a revival in this important
branch of industry took place, and hundredsof able bodied
men who were thrown for sustenance upon the poor-rates
again found employment,although at low wages. Since the
close of the pitmen's strike there has been an extraordinay
demand for vessels, and freights have been offered both in
the coasting and foreign trades double those given at a
corresponding period of the preceding year, and in some
instances a still further advance has been demanded and
obtained. The consequence of this has been, that ships
have risen in value, and an additional impetus has been
given to ship-building, which is now in a thriving, and
promises speedily to be in a highly flourishing state.
The men have seized the present opportunity so favour-
able for obtaining increased remuneration for their
labour. On Saturday night most of them ceased work,
and yesterday they held a numerous meeting on Build-
ing-hill, at which they resolved to continue out of
employment until they received 21s. per week. This
afternoon they were to have held another meeting in
the same locality, but this meeting either. waspost-
poned, or the place altered. The general opinion in the
town is, that the workmen are entitled to and will re-
ceive the advanced wages ; but it is to be regretted that
previous to a strike commencing the men employed in
any trade do not wait upon their employers, and repre-
sent their wishes and urge their claims. If this were
done, strikes would not be so frequent as they now are,
and a better feeling would prevail amongst masters
and men.
FRENCH MISAPPREHENSION OF ENGLISH TITLES
AND PROCEEDINGS.—The late elevation of Lord Stanley
to the Upper House is thus recorded and explained in
the Commerce, a Paris paper of high character, in its
number of the Bth inst. :—" Lord Stanley, Minister for
the Colonies, has accepted the title of Lord Chiltern
Hundreds—a title with no duties annexed—which is in-
compatible with that of Member of the Elective Cham-
h-r, because it is attached to the Household of the
Queen." In the same blundering spirit, the National of
Sunday has a long article in which it talks of the efforts
made by " Lord Piardinge " to conclude a commercial
treaty with the Pacha of Egypt. A mysterious per-
sonage, called Sir R. Peel, is still commonly described
in the French provincial journals as the English. Premier;
and it is only a few weeks since we were startled bY the
announcement, that Sir W. Peel, the son of the said Sir
R. Peel, had passed his examination at Portsmouth for
the rank of Admiral I—Times.

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CHEAP TRAIN PROM YoRK.—On Monday a cheap
train brought an importation of between two and three
thousand visitors into Newcastle, giving an unusual ap •
pc-arance of bustle to its streets.— Tyne Mercury.
Mr. J. C. Belaney is said to be now on a visit in
the family of a gentleman at Cleadon, near South
Shields.—Tyne Mercury.