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Title: History of the Philadelphia almshouses and hospitals from the beginning of the eighteenth to the ending of the nineteenth centuries ...: showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the boards of overseers of the poor, gaurdians of the poor and the directors of the Department of Charities and Correction
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Lawrence, Charles, b. 1837
Subjects: Philadelphia (Pa.). Guardians for the Relief and Employment of the Poor Philadelphia (Pa.). Board of Guardians of the Poor Philadelphia (Pa.). Dept. of Charities and Correction Almshouses Hospitals Hospitals Hospitals
Publisher: (Philadelphia) : C. Lawrence
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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s, and one of them had this editorial: BuzzARDiSM Revived. Some time ago the Guardians of the Poor, in order to put anend to the Buzzard practice, had a vault built for the reception ofthe dead bodies of paupers, in which they could be kept untilclaimed by relatives, if called for in a reasonable time, or untildecay had so far progressed as- to render the bodies useless forpurposes of dissection. This regulation, if strictly carried out,would have put an end to the Buzzard practices which haveexcited so much attention in connection with that institution. It wasa wise and good arrangement. At a recent meeting of the Guard-ians, however, a retrograde movement was decided upon. It wasresolved that during the warm weather the reception vault shouldnot be used for purposes of interment as formerly. What mightbe considered warm weather and how long the warm weatherwas to last, were left unexplained. This action, however, opensthe gates for the medical schools completely. Theoretically the Q
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History of Philadelphia Almshouses and Hospitals. 271 bodies of the paupers who died at the Almshouse were always interredin the burying ground, but practically they were not. The sum-mer is the great season for the medical schools, the bodies beingprepared to keep- by proper injections in the veins and by preserv-ing them in whiskey, ready for the commencement of lectures atthe colleges in the fall. Are we therefore to understand that theGuardians of the Poor have determined to reopen this traffic, not-withstanding the pretence of opposition to it which the erection ofthe receiving vault was supposed to signify ? A communication was received from Councils in reference tothe erection of a Municipal Hospital for cases of contagious dis-eases. Messrs. Dickinson and Haines were elected Commissioners tosuperintend the building of the Hospital, in connection with thecommittees appointed by Councils, the Board of Health, the PrisonInspectors and the Mayor. The House Agents report showed tha

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