The Express. — 1853-10-03 (London, England)

JOINT BTOCE BANNS. --a-- t. lSri l!telgah risdia"- - .an v. id .... as . . . ..-__  Saturday, Hr. NICHOLAT put • question to the commission= baths and wishbone's. A charge was brought by m,6 eel prsetitioners ageism Mr. Foote' the 'upwind*. dentlef the bathe end washßetties, of great entelty, and refs/as a both to a fellow-creature, at a time when the is. mediate necessity of a warm bath was considered smatter of life and death. lie was desirous of knowing what ebre commissioners had dose is reference to those charges. Mr. CLEMENT GEOROII (a commissioner) raid that the eircumosuccs of the affair Pad been fully investigated, bed it appeared that the body of a female who had throw* 'elf into the twit was brought to the baths and wasidememe at night, after the establishment was closed, at eb able hour, and the medical men and en unruly mierarbwhitely scaled the walls, and were on the terrace of the building before Mr. Foots, the superintendent, was awn* of what bad happened. The doors were hammered at, end a bath demanded in a most uncouth and overbearing moaner by the medical men, with nit any explanation is the first instance of the pureesz for which it was so bee minded. It was true that under such eircumstane-s, and is core quencc of the epithets applied to him, the superior tendent lost the command of his temper; but as soon as he understood the urgency of the ease, he ran himself to the I engine department, and turned on the hot water, and with his wife; reordered all the assistance in his power. The commissioners came to a resolution "expressive of regret that their officer had not displayed greater command of his temper on the occasion," but, with that exception, his conduct met with their approval rather than otherwise. The medical teen who had charge of the poor woman must have known that the baths and weshhouses was not the proper place to take A body to, and when they did arrive there, their conduct was most indecorous. If it was to go forth to the public that the baths and washheneea were to be kept open all night long, and that they were to become the ro• ceptable for dead bodies on every occasion, it would Woo become a very profitlese establishment, as the public would not go to bathe there, and they woalii have to keep a WI set of servants, as titles now engaged were there frees fine in the morning till ten et night. Mr. D'lrrAyoza, jun., said it was a remarkable fact that, immediately opposite the baths and washbouses there was the W. stern General Dispensary, a much more proper place to have taken this poor unfortunate to, but it was supposed the jealousies among-t the medical men prevestall that. If they were to open the baths and washbowls. he persons ill one way they must do so in all instances; eel if they were to take persons in with the cholera to haw bet laths, there would be such a panic in the public mind time no one would go there for fear theyshonld have a bath la which a dead body or deceased person had been placed. H thought that it wee an unquestionable fact that the medical men did not conduct themselves on the occarion with the temper they ought to have done. Mr. Sobers felt that the superintendent had been run gown. The public ought to know that there were a great I many wen of self-destruction perpetrated or attempted in the sense locality, and that it heel always been the practice previously to take persons partially drowned to the intr. ma of the workhouse, which was mach to the spat where this eniride took place than the bates and washbosses. lie had no desire to libel the medical men, but it was reported that if the party taken out of the water was eonveyed to the workhouse and died, then the surgeon to the workhouse would obtain the post ms.rtens fee, and that them medical men took the poor woman to the baths and washbowls that they might obtain the fee themselves. He' did not vouch for this being the fact, but he had heard It. Air. POLAND said it was a remarkable fact, that new this case, there had been three persons who had attempted suicide at the same spotArought to the workhouse, and two out of the three were recovered. Kr. CoMAN —These medical gentlemen thought, by their performance of the Ossetian operation, to obtain a little notoriety. The