Annie's last meal

[DJA]

[Parisi North Humber]

Just found that T.B. can affect digestion.

"Gasrointestinal tuberculosis can affect any part of the digestive tract but it mostly affects the small and large intestine. Here are some symptoms of Gastrointestinal tuberculosis: Loss of body weight: People suffering from Gastrointestinal tuberculosis have trouble in proper digestion of food"

Helen X

[Parisi North Humber]

Perhaps she had a slow digestive system due to an underlying disease such as hypothyroidism or some other illness. We know she was described as manourished even though she didn't look particularly underweight so perhaps she has issuses digesting and absorbing nutrients from the meagre meals she managed to procure.

Helen x

[DJA]

Also why Chapman's temperature was so low before her death.
Add in her lack of ATP due to malnourishment and we can understand Dr Phillips' assessment.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Cheers

[DJA]

Yep.

TB infections in the area ~ 25%.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Do we know for certain what Annie’s lung disease was?

[Herlock Sholmes]

I said reasonable. The idea that Annie begged, borrowed or stole a potato for farther down the line falls into the realms of "we just don't know" as opposed to reasonable.

I'll wait on something more substantial.

“We just don’t know” is an entirely reasonable position. Claiming to know what someone couldn’t have done when we have no way of knowing isn’t reasonable.

Just because something can’t be proven it doesn’t make it unreasonable or unlikely or impossible. We have a gap of time with no idea what Chapman did or where she went or who she might or might not have had contact with. About a million things could have happened within that time, none of which we have any way of knowing about. Just as none of us can say that x must have occurred, you can’t say that x didn’t occur because we have no proof of it.

Just because she set out in search of a client it can’t mean that she did nothing but that. If she hadn’t managed to find one what could she have done but walk the streets? Who’s to say that she couldn’t have bumped into friend in the same position? No money but a bit of food which she decided to share with her friend?

[Abby Normal]

Press reports suggest she arrived at the lodging house with potatoes, as opposed to getting them in the lodging house.

I'd disagree. Victorian age punishment was severe and you'd have to argue Annie had the opportunity. 'Too much of a stretch to deem this explanation to be reasonable.

Diddles idea is totally reasonable. seriously dude, whats your problem? plus you missed the point where she said she might have been given one. if your going to be incorrect and not understand someones post (again)at least dont be so arrogant lol

[Fleetwood Mac]

Suggesting that there’s a huge dinosaur swimming around in Loch Ness avoiding being seen by the public is unreasonable. Suggesting that the earth is flat is unreasonable. Suggesting that the Queen is a reptilian alien is unreasonable. Suggesting that a woman might have been in possession of 2 potatoes is hardly David Icke territory is it?

Also, why the point about the severity of punishment? Are you assuming that she can only have stolen them?

I said reasonable. The idea that Annie begged, borrowed or stole a potato for farther down the line falls into the realms of "we just don't know" as opposed to reasonable.

I'll wait on something more substantial.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Suggesting that there’s a huge dinosaur swimming around in Loch Ness avoiding being seen by the public is unreasonable. Suggesting that the earth is flat is unreasonable. Suggesting that the Queen is a reptilian alien is unreasonable. Suggesting that a woman might have been in possession of 2 potatoes is hardly David Icke territory is it?

Also, why the point about the severity of punishment? Are you assuming that she can only have stolen them?

[Fleetwood Mac]

IIRC the information about Annie eating a baked potato comes from Timothy Donovan.

I'd assumed that the potatoes were on offer in the lodging house kitchen, but it could be that she'd picked it up elsewhere and brought it in to eat there.

Regardless, the simplest solution is that wherever she got that potato from, she helped herself to (or was given) an extra one which she ate later.

Press reports suggest she arrived at the lodging house with potatoes, as opposed to getting them in the lodging house.

I'd disagree. Victorian age punishment was severe and you'd have to argue Annie had the opportunity. 'Too much of a stretch to deem this explanation to be reasonable.

[DJA]

Deceased was then eating potatoes, and went out.

[Ms Diddles]

I suppose the initial question is: from where exactly did Annie get the potato/es?

Sources I've read suggest it wasn't from the lodging house.

IIRC the information about Annie eating a baked potato comes from Timothy Donovan.

I'd assumed that the potatoes were on offer in the lodging house kitchen, but it could be that she'd picked it up elsewhere and brought it in to eat there.

Regardless, the simplest solution is that wherever she got that potato from, she helped herself to (or was given) an extra one which she ate later.

[Fleetwood Mac]

Hi FM!

To my mind one possible solution is that when eating the baked potato in the lodging house kitchen, she pocketed an extra one for later consumption.

I suppose the initial question is: from where exactly did Annie get the potato/es?

Sources I've read suggest it wasn't from the lodging house.