The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-22
GHOULs IN CONNECTICUT.
The Corpses OF the Poor to be Chopped up In
the Yale Medical Coliege-The Bill which the
Yale Professors are Smuggling Through the
LEGISLATURE.

The Corpses OF the Poor to be Chopped nm In
the Yale Medical Coliege-The Bill which the
Yale Professors are Smuggling Through the
legislature.
From the Meriden Recorder.
Our faithful correspondent in New Haven sent us
for Saturdays daily draft OF the bill now before the
Legislature which In effect, were it adopted, would
revive the old "Boil Up Law" Some OF our older
readers will remember something about that law
and the excitement which attended its enactment
Old residents OF New Haven have not forgotten the
mob that assembled to tear down the Medical Col
lege, where, IL reported the cellars were filed
with dead bodies awaiting dissection. Possibly a
similar scene may be enacted there should the bill
The main provision OF the "Boil Up Law" was
that on the death OF any person whose interment
should be at the expense of the State, or of any
town within the State IL no friends appear to claim
the body and give it BURIAL the authorities might on
application give 1t to the physicians for dissection
Inc law was very odious one, particularly TO the
poor. 1t was enacted by the Democrats aud the
Wings used it very effectively against the Democra
cy, pledg1Dg themselves to repeal It when they OBJ
tanned the power. The law was enacted i'm ls38
ana bears the signature of Henry w. Edwards as
Samuel Ingham, Speaker OF the House. The next
year the Wings were successful, eecting Samuel a.
Foot, of Cheshire, Governor, and, in accordance
with their promises one OF their first acts was to
repeal the odious law.
The law now proposed is quite as infamous in its
character as the old one and the action OF its friends
in trying to prevent the people from knowing any
thing about the measure shows that they so regard
1t themselves. BY it the body of any deceased per-
son whose friends are not near enough to claim it
within twenty-fOur hours belongs to the physicians
II the authorities are willing to give it to them, and
If the friends enough, but fail to make de-
mand for the body it can be given Ip for dissection
In many cases it would be impossible for the
friends Of deceased person to be notified of his
death within twenty -four hours to say nothing of
their being able to reach the state within that time
and they might arrive just in time to have the priv-
ege OF witnessing the last operation the dissect-
ing table. 1t might, however, be great 'comfOrtr
for them to know that the humane law would allow
them to receive the sacred portions of the body upon
making polite demand on the doctors.
Legislature which should enact such law
for the friendess and the law would be used against
any political party that could have prevented its
enactment and yet failed to prevent it.
THE INFAMOUS BILL.
Be 10 enacted by the Senate and House of Representn
tires, IN General Assembly conrened.
Section 1t shall be lawful in cities for the Mayors
tnereof 10 deliver to the professors and teachers in
chartered medical colleges in this State and for said
professors and teachers to receive, the remains or
body OF any deceased person for the purposes of
medical and surgical study; provided, that said
remains shall not have been regularly inferred and
shall not have been desired for interment, by any
relative or friend of said deceased person, within
twenty.four hours after death; provided Also that
the remains of no person, who may be known to
have relatives or friends shall be 50 delivered or
Irlehds; and provided, that the remains OF
no person who shall have expressed desire in his
or her last sickness, that his or her body may in
tered, shall be delivered or received as aforesaid
and provided also, that in the remains of any
person SO delivered or received shall be subse-
quently claimed by any surviving relative or friend
they shall be given up to said relative or friend for
lnternent And 1t shall be the duty OF the said pro-
fefsors and teachers decenty bury the remains of
all bodies after they shall have answered the pur-
poses of study aforesaid and for any neglect or vio-
lation OF this provision OF this act the party so
negecting shall forfeit and pay penalty OF not less
than $25 nor more than $50.
Section 2. The remains or bodies of such persons
as may be 80 received by the professors and teachers
aforesaid shall be used for the purposes OF medical
and surgical study alone, in a manner consistent
with public propriety, and in this State only and
whoever shall remove such remains beyond the
limits OF this State, or 10 any manner traic in the
same shall be deemed guilty OF misdemeanor, and
shall, on conviction, be imprisoned for a term not
exceeding one year in a county Jail.