The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-19 00:00:00

MYSTERIOUS MORTALITY.

On Monday at noon. Mr. WakleY, M.P., commenced a most
extraordinary inquiry at the Middlesex Hospital, touching
the deaths of Wm. Lambert, aged 17, and Henry Lambert,
aged 13, forming part of a family residing at No. 33, Cum-
berland-market, Regent's-park, and carrying on the bUsi-
ness of plumbers and painters.
In order to make the case perfectly clear, the reporter
thinks it right to state that the father of the deceased
youths died three months ago, and that a brother, aged 20,
and a young sister are now lying dead at their residence,
and that a fourth brother is in the hospital hourly expected
to expire. They have all died, the father probably ex-
cepted, of the same disease, or rather of the same symptoms.
One of the hospital nurses said that the deceased was ad-
mitted on the 4th instant, with a younger brother not yet
dead, all labouring under delirium. 'William died on Thurs-
day night, and Henry on Saturday last. When they were
brought in the mother said their disease was scarlatina. The
deceased, Henry, complained of violent sore throat.
Mr. Corfe, the house apothecary, addressing the Coroner,
said—Sir, this is a most extraordinary case. Here is a fanilly
of eight persons, four of whom have already died of the same
complaint. ' Two died at their home, two in this hospital, and
there is another here now, who in all probability will share
the same fate. Sir, I must tell you that this case rgquires a
most scrutinising investigation on your part.
The Coroner, on hearing these preliminary remarks made,
in a most emphatic manner, ordered the room to be cleared
of strangers, when ar. examination of Mr. Corte took place,
the result of which the reporter had reason to know was not
conclusive af, Ito the cause of death. The bodies of the youths
who died in tin hospital were opened, hut the contents of
their stomachs were not analysed. The Coroner ordered them
to be analysed, and also directed that a post mortem examina-
tion should be made of the bodies lying dead at No. 33,
Cumberland-market. He then adjourned the inquest to
Monday next.

Mr. Wakley, at an inquest held on Monday in the New
Model Prison, made the following remarks relative to these
mysterious deaths:—" He said that out of a family of nine
persons, four had died in a very short time. Their symp-
toms showed that they had died from the operation of
some sort of poison, certainly not a mineral one. It was
a most extraordinary case, and one that was as yet
enveloped in mystery. There appeared, however, to be
enough to induce him to believe that the parties died either
from having eaten impure meat of some kind or other, or
from having inhaled impure gases emitted by the sewers of
the neighbourhood (Cumberland-market) in which they
lived. There had been a most foetid discharge from the
nostrils of the diseased and deceased parties, similar to that
of glanders; but there had been no evidence to show that
any of them had ever come into contact with a glandered
animal. There were huge swellings throughout the necks
of the deceased, and other very extraordinary appearances
in the joints of the members. The patients, while labouring
under this mysterious and fatal disease, displayed a most
extraordinary appetite, eating rump steaks in considerable
quantities. The occurrence was quite frightful ; and if it
had ciccurred there (in the New Model Prison) they should
have attributed it to something or other connected with that
establishment. It showed how cautious juries ought to be
in drawing conclusions not warranted by the clearest and mot
positive evidence."

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