DEATHS FROM STARVATION

Evening Star, Issue 15139, 22 March 1913, Page 10

DEATHS FROM STARVATION

A return issued by the Local Government Board, based upon particulars supplied by coroners, shows that during 1911 there were 100 eases in England and Wales of persons who died from starvation or whose deaths were accelerated by privation, according to the verdicts of coroners' juries. Of the 100 deaths, 44 occurred in the administrative of London and 56 in the provinces. In 14 cases a verdict was returned by the jury that death was due to starvation or to starvation in conjunction with some other cause—disease, exposure, or neglect; and in most cases the deaths apjiear to have been duo to disease consequent upon or accelerated by want or exposure, or both, or to self-neg-lect. Eleven caws were those of old a<'o pensioners. In 82 of the ICO cases no application had been made for poor relief, or application was only made when the applicants were in a dying condition. In three cases the persons' were in receipt of outdoor relief at the time of death., and in 12 other cases relief had been received at some period before death. In the remaining cases relief had been received in tho casual wards or medical relief had been given, or relief had been offered but, not accepted. Two of the 100 were children, and the. parent or parents were prosecuted for neglecting them, and were convicted and punished.