§ 33. Colonel DAYasked the Minister of Health if his attention has been drawn to the death of Christopher Maund, aged 62, on whom an inquest was held at Worcester on the 6th March, when it was stated that, following his ejection from a house in November last, deceased had lived, together with his sister, in the bushes of a wood; and what steps have been taken as to the welfare of the woman in question?
§ 36. Mr. TREVELYANasked the Minister of Health who was responsible for having turned out of his house in Worcester Christopher Wyatt, who was found dead in Perry Wood, near Worcester, after some weeks of living exposed to the snow and rain, and who was declared by the coroner to have died of starvation accelerated by exposure; and why, if the house he has been living in was condemned, provision was not made for alternative accommodation for him when he was forced to leave it?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINI will, with permission, reply to these questions together, as I understand that they refer to the same man. I have been in com- 584 munication on the matter with the Worcester Corporation, who inform me that the ejectment of Maund from his house in October last was not due to any action on their part, and that no application for possession of the house came at any time before the City Justices. I understand that the sister of the deceased man is receiving attention in the Poor Law infirmary of the Worcester Union.