Deceased was very badly nourished and was very emaciated.

She had extensive sores on her legs, and her stockings were adherent to those sores.

The sores were the result of vermin." A man present at the inquest wrote: "I had the evil fortune to see the body of the unfortunate woman as it lay in the mortuary; and even now the memory of that gruesome sight makes me shudder.

There she lay in the mortuary shell, so starved and emaciated that she was a mere bundle of skin and bones.

Her hair, which was matted with filth, was simply a nest of vermin.