The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-06

food there. On the first OF every
month the Warden reports TO the
Commissioners of Charities and Cor.
rections abstract Of his register of recognized
and OF unrecognized bodies. and duplicate is
handed in to the Board OF Police. Alphabetical
and numerical lists of all bodies received are
carefully kept. 1t will thus be seen that the
Morgue system OF New York is as careful as II
IL had implicitly followed the renowned one of
Paris. In the exposure OF the bodies, no viewer,
there is decency In our habit which the
prurient ParisiRns would be far from appreoiat.
ing. No portions of the bodies except the head
and shoulder tops are exposed to the public,
and the eye of deoenoy is not outraged with
the spectacle which despairing Spartan virgins
willingly braved all the ills of life TO avert in
their own persons.
Since June a. 1865, two hundred and forty
four bodies in all, have been received up 70
the hour OF my yesterdays visit to this modest
mauBoleum OF unburled dead. Seventy.one
were received between June % and December
25, 1856; one hundred and seven between Jsnu-
ary l, and December 26, 1867; and sixty-sIx be-
tween January 7, and July 8, 1868. A day or a
week may pass without the Coroner or the
Police superintendent being notified. Then
three or four or half a.dozen cases come in in
a lump. Asspecimens of the details registered,
the first and the last case selected read thus
No l, name unknown; date of reception June
%, 1866: hour OF the day p. M; brought by per-
nor's inquest June %; name OF Coroner holding
inquest - -; verdict, "drowned;" time
known; place where found pier No q East
river; date and place of burial, July "A, City
SToWn ese co aS SEX him male color White hair
drawers, white Schurz boots.
No. 2il name unknown; date OF reception,
brought by permit OF Coroner Kellogg; date OF
Coroners inquest, July 3; name of Coroner hold
death and Verdict place WheTe oneG Sa
"a Courtlandt street; date OF and place of burial
black coat, IT, vest and pants. Blue SOCKS Waite
shirt. netted undershirt and drawers, shoes.
"By far the greatest number of cases are
drowned" or "sunstroke." OF the two hun
dred and forty-four cases now OH record in the
Warden's socks. the statistics of Coroners' ver-
diets are as follows:--
Suicide Immediate cause not specided), 1:
suicide by jumping cut of window, l. suicide by
hanging, 2; suicide by shooting, 4; killed by
tion (overwork or Over.exertion) i: Asiatic
cholera, |: common fall $50 far as may be judged
in the absence of details), 2; apoplexy, 8;
consumption, 3: disease OF throat, l; run over, 8;
Brights disease generally admitted to be in.
GSSsaS5ie cur 4 sneIrsm M Of the s0ra disease Of
the heart from other causes 8; fracture of skull,
3. overdose Of laudanum l; injuries acciden3
under head OF falling timber and embauk-
mtnD o; acute meningitis, 2; cardiac disease, l;
motive, l; compression OF brain, 1; glan-
ders, l; disease of the kidneys. 1; pleurtsy,
l; effects OF an explosion. !; pneumonia, l.
This list might be better classified, but pre-
ferred to make 1t from the exact words of the
verdicts in the register Clse No. 244 had not
yet had a verdict returned upon 1T, when left
the Morgue; and deductiug these sixty-one cases
of death from general causes, 1872 cases remain
of death from drowning and sunstroke. The
whole number of causes of death is twenty-five,
as follows:-Drowning sunstroke suicide over
dose OF laudanum, accidental injuries, exhaus-
tiop, cholera, apoplexy, consumption, disease
of throat, BrIghts disease. areurism of the
aorta, disease of the heart, fracture of the skull
acute meningitis, cardiac disc ease, rupture of
liver compression of brain, glanders disease of
the kidneys, pieurisy, and pneumonia. The
Warden's legislers, whoever makes the entries,
are not as neatly kept as they might be, and the
frequently recorded verdict of Grounded" or
even "Drownding," is one of the more amusing
Of the photographic anomalies.
Meanwhile these dead people to whom ins
vited your attention a column or two ago, and
whom have avoided describing because hate
describing what is so repulsive, even with the
veil of pRthos thrown over it, are lying there
still. The two hundred and forty.four hitherto
received include all ages, both sexes, almost
every nationality and color, all conditions and
ranks Of life. Relations, friends, lovers. sweet
hearts, ana mlSJreSSeS come 10 recognize GnoH,
and you may be sure there is many a sad scene
witnessed in that exhibition hall, and the
Coroner's post -mortem room beyond, where as
many a dark career has darkly terminated.
During the courses of the stars wealth and
fashion and wisdom and knowledge and power
and ignorance and poverty and crime and suf'
fering and loathsomeness and guilt deposit In
this silent receptacle some of the human
particles which represented them, and which
vending their different ways in life, here lie
for moment side by side, upon one common
level, exposed to public gaze will not, in this
place at any rate, gratify the readers confident
| anticipation that something about llfe's htful
| fever would here be introduced, under the idea
| entertained by the correspondent, that such an
| introduction would cinch the pathos OF the
| scene. In the first place have remote recol.
| lection of having read that quotation once or
twice in pl int before; and in the next place
am not SO sure that life is so mucn hJful fever
ait ter all, except with those VINO find nothing
| better to do with it than gamble IL away. Still
| these sleeping figures here suggest many sad
| romance. Stlll, again. as the CoToner's Verdlcts
| present all the causes of death In 2l3 cases, 1
| Shall leave the reader to discover with what
| disease he can make the utmost verge of rO-
| nance most compatible. ALI BABA.
| MARRIED.
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