The bailiffs were put into the house of a man named Jackman, when he was suffering from a mortal disease.,, He was wifeless and friendless.': No doctor was called in to see him, but after some delay the police were appealed to, and he was put into a cab and driven to the door of the Melbourne hospital. That institution, could find no room for him, os it was packed with typhoid patients. The Alfred hospital was telephoned to, but its wards are in the same congested condition. There ,was neither bed nor shelter nor help for this wretched man anywhere, except in a cab, until, in the Coroner’s phrase, ‘'the man himself relieved everybody of responsibility by dyttg.”
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 8125, 23 March 1887, Page 4 (Supplement)
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119Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Lyttelton Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 8125, 23 March 1887, Page 4 (Supplement)
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