General Chat

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The Argus ( Melbourne Victoria )

Monday August 19 1918

East-End of London Shirkers.

Forged Certificates Bought.

The sensational charge is being heard in London against Ida CARTER, a girl clerk, at the Stepney Exemption from Service Tribunal, of having forged signatures to exemption certificates.

Defendant in a statement, said that young men asked for forms to keep them out of the army, and gave the girl clerks money for chocolates.

The prosecuting counsel said that out of 8,000 men challenged in the East End 5 per cent. held documents stolen from the Stepney tribunal.

The Advertiser

Monday February 23 1913

FATAL JOY RIDE.

THREE YEARS FOR MAN-SLAUGHTER.

LONDON, February 22.

A chauffeur named STUBBS was yesterday found guilty of manslaughter. The evidence showed that while under the influence of drink he drove a car recklessly through the streets of Manchester, running over and killing a woman.
A sentence of three years' penal servitude was 'imposed.

Advertiser
Adelaide

Monday 18th October

MOTOR FATALITY.
CHAUFFEUR CONVICTED OF MAN-SLAUGHTER.
LONDON,-October 16.

Arthur John Saytch, a chauffeur, was convicted yesterday of the manslaughter of Gunner E. A. Snow, of Nunhead, on the morning of August 12, and sentenced to eight months' imprisonment.

While a battery of the 4th London Field Artillery Territorials were marching towards Rollestone camp, near Salisbury, a motor car driven by the defendant dashed into them on an inclined road near Tilshead--the weather being foggy--and ten men were seriously injured, one of whom subsequently died in the hospital.

The Mercury Hobart, Tuesday 27 August 1912,

... THE WEATHER IN ENGLAND DISASTROUS FLOODS LONDON, August 25.

As a result of the continuous rains in England there have been disastrous floods in the Midland counties. The farmers in Yorkshire are abandoning their hay crops and allowing the villagers to carry the hay away for pig-stys.


1909

THE WEATHER IN ENGLAND.

HEAT CAUSES MANY DEATHS. LONDON, August 13.
The heat in England is intense, and it caused eight deaths yesterday. The heat also exploded the Chilworth Gunpowder Company's works near Buxton. One of the employees was killed. The temperature was 86 degrees in the shade

The Advertiser

Adelaide


THE WEATHER IN ENGLAND.

A WINTRY AUTUMN.

HAY-MAKERS SNOW-BALLING.

LONDON, August 5 1912

This is the coldest autumn known for half a century. Ice and snow have been experienced in the north, and throughout the northern and midland counties heavy floods have resulted, from a protracted rain fall.

The Grampians, the great mountain system of Scotland, forming the natural boundary between the Highlands and the Low-lands, are snow-clad, presenting a spectacle not previously witnessed in August by the present generation.

This is the season for hay-making, and in Cumberland the men and women engaged in it have been able to vary their employment with snowballing matches.

The cold snap has extended throughout England, and has been felt even in the usually mild region of Devonshire, where ' four degrees of frost was registered yesterday.' In the same county there has been a heavy and persistent rainfall, doing much damage to the harvest and retarding farming operations everywhere, so much so that prayers for fine weather were yesterday offered in the churches. '

For a month intermittent rains of a drenching character have fallen in East Yorkshire, flooding the lower country, and, setting the hayricks afloat. Throughout the districts watered by the Dee and Severn the crops are rotting through the excessive rainfall, which has caused those rivers to burst their banks, with 'the result that miles of country are flooded. Thousands of acres of hay and corn are under water.

Thursday 25 August 1898

LONDON WEATHER.

THE HEAT WAVE.

LONDON, August 23.

Phenomenal hot weather continues to prevail throughout the South of England.

The maximum temperature in London to-day was nearly lOOdegs.

Yesterday many sunstrokes, a few of which proved fatal, occurred in the parks and streets of the metropolis.

The Advertiser Adelaide

HEAT IN ENGLAND.

DREADFUL DEATH- RATE. OVER 600 BABIES KILLED.

LONDON, August 24. 1911

Owing to the continued hot weather the death-rate in London last week was 537 above the average. The deaths included 629 infants under the age of two years, The weekly average of infantile mortality in London prior to the heat wave was only 18.

The general death-rate in 77 great towns in the United Kingdom for the week was equal to an annual rate of 20.9 per 1,000, as compared with an average of 13.6 per 1,000 during the previous three weeks.

The Canberra Times
Wednesday 5 August 1931

BANK HOLIDAY!

Bright Scenes In

England

NEW BEACH FASHIONS
LONDON, Monday.

The newspapers recall memories of August 4, 1914. Some have reproduced very poignant pictures of the period.

Though there was a brisk breeze, England basked in sunshine through- out the bank holiday. Seaside resorts were crowded, thousands sleeping on the beaches as the lodging houses were full.

The new vogue in beach pyjamas was in evidence everywhere. Sun- bathing was very popular. Even Mrs. Grundy turned a blind eye to the occasional extravagance.

A very Impromptu pyjama parade was held in Brighton. Blackpool had the most brilliant holiday for years. A quarter of a million spent the week- end in town. The five miles promenade rivalled any continental resort in variet yof gaily coloured beach suits.

Unfortunately numerous bathing fatalities and motor accidents occurred Otherwise, the holiday was unexpectedly enjoyable after sunless, wet weather for the rest of the year.
The usual joke of a fine day in England followed by a thunder storm, was fully realised, when the sunny day ended up with a heavy shower, which drenched the crowds as the were leaving the theatres.

The worst holiday bathing accident was near Selseyhill, where a widowed mother, from the shore, saw her son and two daughters, aged 20. 21 and 23, drown.

Following on from a query on a thread earlier about Diana Street and the female Penitentiary Newcastle Upon Tyne.....

The Lancet
march 4, 1865


At a late inquest here upon the body of a child, it was explained that cases of infanticide were not so often brought before the coroners in the north as in the south of England, because the practice prevailed here of throwing the bodies down the shafts of abandoned coal-pits.

Mr. Kayne, the police surgeon, said that when there was a large pond at the Female Penitentiary in Diana-street, the water was found full of dead children ; and that he had likewise seen, at one time, pigs eating the bodies of children which had been thrown into the Ouseburn at the lower part of the town.

Does this facility of disposing of the bodies in infanticide explain the mystery of the following case ?

A surgeon here was called to see an unmarried woman at her married sister's house, and it was said she had left her situation as domestic servant that day, and that upon arrival at her sister's—it was then night—she was suddenly taken with a flooding. He went, and found the patient very faint, with a good deal of uterine haemorrhage going on.

On placing his hand upon the abdomen he found it very loose, with a uterine tumour nearly as large as a child's head, which on compression speedily contracted, and the haemorrhage ceased.

He found on her clothes which she had taken off some of the sebaceous mutter—vernix caseosa—which adheres to the new-born infant.

Three surgeons were certain she had been confined, but the patient and her friends as stoutly persisted to the contrary. The police got hold of the case, but as, on search, no child or placenta could be found, they could moke nothing of it. To make the case more complete, the patient had a discharge in every respect like lochial.

The Philanthropist (Googlebooks )

http://books.google.com/books?pg=RA3-PA454&dq=Female%20penitentiary%2BNorthumberland&lr=&id=jqAOAAAAQAAJ&output=text

( has many more excerpts about sweeps or the life of children )

Mr. William Wood moved: " That the practice of employing climbing boys for the sweeping of chimneys is inimical to the common feelings of humanity, and is a disgrace to this enlightened age, experience having proved that when the machine is properly applied the chimneys are more effectually cleansed by such means." He said his sympathies had been strongly moved in aid of the objects of the society by having seen two children burnt to death; and that, before a select committee of the House of Lords, he had heard details which would excite his audience painfully were he to repeat them.

Having described the various efforts made during the past century to alleviate the sufferings of chimney sweeps, Mr. Wood said that, in carrying out the objects of the society, he had received much abuse by persons on the magistrates' bench, who had called him a common informer, and who had so excited the people in the court against him that he had been followed into the street, hooted, stoned, and threatened with death ; and on one occasion, to save his life, he had to seek the protection of the police, while he got to the railway station as quickly as he could.

Mr. Wood then adduced several facts which had come under his own observation, illustrative of the hardships and enormities arising from the practice of employing children to sweep chimneys.

One of these was the case of a child who was stolen from his parents at Keighley, when he was only six years old, was taken into a town in Cambridgeshire, where he was subjected to the greatest cruelties for ten years, when he escaped and found his way back to his native place to find that his mother had died of a broken heart soon after he was stolen, and that his father speedily followed her to the grave.