Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-07-14
From the New York World, Juyi.l
n Dead House gOr new YOrk-Adop
ton OF the French Plan.

Having treated our unfortunate dead IN New
tork. for many years. with no more regard than
II We were living in the Of the plague. when
the dead cart ratified along TO the monotonous
cry Of Bring out your corpses !" il has at last
been determined to establish public mOrgue
The four commissioners of chatiss and cor
rectons have resolved to establish dead house
At the Bellevue Hospital, on the French plan
and give the relatives of unrccognized bodies
time and opportunity to recover them.
Heretofore hasty inquest. lapse Of a few
days, and the CHASTITY Potter's field have termi-
mated the career of the robbers victim. or the
drowned and hastily deceased stranger
The "Morgue" is old and worthy institution
in Paris, aud the fame and benifcence of it have
gone over the world Ii formerly stood on one
OF the public quays, adjacent 10 the Palais de
Justice, and was a singl stored stone building,
divided into three apartments. The CRETE. or
keeper lived in one end; the dead were stretched
upon Stats Of zinc al the other, and The middle
space reserved for visitors, who we're admit
ted without restriction from daylight to o'clock
After the gates closed, special admissions on the
part of bereaved people we're allowed during the
whole night. The 9refe was allowed to receive
no presents or money Tor assis ting folks in find
ing their friends. aud no charge was made upon
any one recognizing or claiming body The
sanitary character of ;he place was perfectly at
tended TO; water dropped from above upon the
heads OF the corpses exposed. They were kept
tbehind glass partition. and the cloth
ing was suspended above the heads, with
whatever trnkets were found upon the bodies.
They entirely nude. excepting a cloth
about their waists, and were exhibited for two
weeks, in case their state of decomposition per
mitied.
new morgue was opened last year upon the
lie de Cite, IN the rear of the cathedral of Note
Dame. since the old morgue occupied some
ground required for a grand new bsrrack The
aew morgue, in administration, resembles the
col but IL is more retired and spacious. and the
sexes are kept in different chs mbers
We need morgue here more than at Paris,
as we have more violent deaths. and the great
number of immigrants arriving here delays re-
cognition. Men are constantly found floating 10
our docks, and inquiries constantly being
made for men untimely buried.
10 all foreign cosrtries every precaution is
taken to properly respect the unrecognized IN
fortunate. The society OF the Mserecordis in
Florence, TO bury the strangers and the needy. is
of ave centuries standing. Its active members
wear masks, aud by night carry torches, chant
ing drges as they carry the dead.
In Germany. every cemetery has attached to
il an officer whose business il Is 10 guard against
100 hssty interments rope is tied about the
head of the dead, and made fast 20 a bell Ii he
stirs in bis coffin, he ia looked 20. and IL possible
resuscitated
The new morgue. in New York, should not be
put so Ear from the populous heart OF the city as
at Bellevue. but. wherever placed. il is an eI-
cellent Introduction.