§ MR. FLYNNI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the proceedings at an inquest held at Wood Green, on the body of Mrs. Wrangle, who died "on a bed of old sacking and rags," and at which the jury returned a verdict of "died from neglect, and want of proper attention and food, resulting in syncope"; was the attention of the district relieving officer called to the case of this poor woman; and was she in receipt of any outdoor relief; and, if not, what report has the relieving officer to make?
§ MR. RITCHIEI have made inquiry about the case of Mrs. Wrangle, at Wood Green, and I am informed that on the day previous to the death of the poor woman, her husband applied at the house of the relieving officer for a medical order for his wife. He did not apply for food or necessaries, but merely stated that he could not afford a doctor. The relieving officer was himself ill in bed with influenza, and therefore could not 159 visit the house, but he at once gave an order for the attendance of the district medical officer. Neither the husband nor the wife had ever applied for relief before this occasion, and the relieving officer says that the husband has told him that there was plenty of food in the house, and that an hour before she died his wife took an egg.