LAMBETH BABY'S DEATH
MOTHER COMMITTED FOR TRIAL
At Monday's inquest on Ethel Rose Mayersbeth, aged twenty-three months, found naked and dead in the arms of her mother in a shop at Lambeth-walk, the verdict was "Manslaughter."
Mrs. Mayersbeth said she lived apart from her husband, from whom she had 32s. 6d. a week. She had five children living, the eldest aged ten. About a month ago two of her children were attacked with measles. She took them to St. Thomas's Hospital. They were seen in the out-patients's room. (Sensation.) The baby was then attacked with measles.
The Coroner: Owing to your intemperate and dirty habits your landlady gave you notice to quit?
Witness: Yes
The Coroner: Sergeant Henry Barnes served you with an ejectment order?
Witness: Yes and my goods were put in the back yard.
Medical evidence was then given to the effect that death was due to weak circulation of the heart and acute pneumonia, whereupon the Coroner asked what else could be expected if people took children about in the state of nudity.
Mrs. Rose Mayersbeth was fully committed for trial on the Coroner's warrant.