STARVATION IN LONDON

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1741, 16 January 1888, Page 3

STARVATION IN LONDON

The London |: Dally Chronicle" of November 26 has the following acoonnt of the discovery of a starving man and woman:

-— •' The horrors of abandonment, of death made more dire by starvation, dospalr aod atter neglect, possible In thia metropolis, are brought home to all by the raelanoholy discovery made yestarday In Giaashousestreet, Lambeth. In a small back room of a tenement there wes first found a woman, warm from the life that had just ended. She was huddled up on the floor, wiih a few fiitby rags clinging to her petaoa, but co dirty and emsotated that it tvae impossible to gaesa htr ago. Beside ber, under a piece of coarao eackiog, a man was obuervod, hia preaeuce only bolng detected by tha mofetneut of hiß roagh ooverlDg. He waa m juat as fi thy and emaciated a elate as the woman, and the doctor who has since attended him declares his case to be very critical. These two parr craa<urea bad had a email sum allowed them from the parish Probably they shrank from the idea of the workhouse, and la solitude pined away la their room, hungry and dospait* Ing, It is a horrible, a heartrending incident m tho Loudon life of to-day, and one to move tha humane to pity and regret,"