The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-12-06

AN ORDINANCE
IA To Establish Certain Rules and Regula-
tiOns for the Government of the New Morgue
Building.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils
of the City of Philadelphia do ordain, That the
following shall be the Rules and Regulations
for the Government of the new Morgue Build
ing, located at the northwest corner OF Beach
and Noble streets, in the Eleventh ward:-
Rule l. The Morgue shall be in charge of the
Commissioner of Markets and City Property
and the Committee of Councils on City Pro-
perty, and shall be open at all hours of the day
and night for the reception of bodies. The ex-
hibtion hall shall be open daily from sunrise to
sunset
Rule 2. There shall be appointed by the Com
missioner superintendent, who shall occupy
and reside iu the dwelling part of the Morgue
building. The superintendent shall be always
on duty in the building, with such assistance
as the Commissioner and the Committee of
Councils on City Property may deem necessary.
Rule 3. The superintendent shall have full
charge and control of the Morgue building and
all the property therein contained and shall
keep record book in the office of the Morgue,
in which citizens may record the names of
missing friends, and describe their person and
clothing, and the address to which information
respecting them may be sent.
Rule 4. No corpse shall be received at the
Morgue unless in charge of a policeman, or on
the order of the Coroner or the Chief of Police,
unless the Superintendent of the Morgue shall
be satisfied by a citizen that the corpse has
been found dead in the street or drowned.
When corpse is brought by policeman, the
attendant In charge will record the policemans
name and number, and police district to which
he is attached.
Rule 5. The attendant in charge will on the
arrival of O corpse at the Morgue Immediately
report to the Coroner. He will then record in
"a book to be kept for that purpose, detailed
account of the recovery of the body, when
found, and at what place and at what hour
the hour of admission to the Morgue, in whose
charge, or on whose warrant; description of
the body, clothing, papers, and money found
on it, and in the margin OF the book opposite
the account state the number in consecutive
order of the bodies received which number
shall also be placed on the body. The papers,
money, and all other vauables shall be put up
in package, marked with the same number
as the body, and placed in security by the SUI
perintendent, who shall be held responsible for
the same.
Rule 6. All bodies brought to the Morgue
shall remain, if they are not recognized, In the
hall of exhibition seventy. two hours or longer
or until decomposition commences. The cloth
ing shall also be exhibited near the body. If,
when the exhibition can no longer be continued
the body remains unrecogniZed, it is to be
buried. The clothes shall remain exposed
twenty days longer Bodies when identified
shall be Immediately Withdrawn from exhibition
and placed in private room.
Rule z. 1t shall be the duty Of the superin-
tendent to notify the Coroner by o'clock A. NJ.
night, and when body has been received be-
tween sunrise and sunset he shall notify the
Coroner Immediately. Whenever there are in
dications OF violent death she shall Immediately
report the case to his Honor the Mayor or the
Cbief of Police.
Rule 8. No corpse received at the Morgue
shall be taken away and inferred without the
Coroner's consent in writing, nor shall a post.
mOriem examination be held upon any corpse
unless in the presence of the Coroner or by his
written consent.
Rule O. The friends of person whose body
has been identified can transfer it to their owI
domicile with the consent in writing of the
| Coroner.
Rule 10. The attendants shall, under no cir
| cumstances, ask from or receive from the de
| ceased persons friends or relatives any fees o.
| compensation for services rendered, under &
! penalty of immediate dismissal by the Com
| missioner.
Rule IL On the first day of each month tn,
| Superintendent shall make report to the Com
missioner of Markets and City Property, a state
| ment OF identified bodies, setting torth:-
First. The date of reception.
Second. Name age, profession, and residence
| of deceased.
Third Cause of death.
Fourth. Mode of death.
| Fifth. Hour of death.
SiItt. Place of death.
Rule 12. Also statement Of bodies not iden
| tifed:-
First. A succnct description of the body, ant
| Wletler mal6 OF
Second. Probable age, and whether white o
colored.
Third. Mode of death.
Fourth Place where body was found.
Duplicates of which shall be transmitted TO hi
Honor the Mayor.
Rule I3. There shall also be kept an alpha
betical list of all identified persons and a list o
the number of persons in consecutive order.
Rule Ia. The clothes and other effects belong
ing to the identified bodies shall be given up t
the family or the representatives of the dc
ceased on proper proof, and their receipt b
Rule IS. The clothes and other effects of a.
unrecognized bodies, when the period OF eXhib
tion shall have expired, shall be washed, tied u
in packages and preserved for six months. Th
package shall be numbered, corresponding
the number of the body on the record book.
Rule 16. After one years time from the daI
of the reception of an unidentified body, tn
Superintendent shall deliver over to the Con
missioner of Markets and City Property all th
clothes and other property that were found upo
the body of the deceased at the time 1t was r
ceiyed into the Morgue, together with list
the property then handed over, the same to
copied from the record book, with the numbi
to correspond with that OF the body. The Cor
, missioner, on fading the property and list
, correspond, shall then preserve the list, al
! have the property sold at public sale, and shs
hand the proceeds of such sales over to q
p City Treasurer, and take his receipt for Il
same; and the credit to be made to the Commi
sioner shall state as realized from the sale of
b. or G, deceased, effects, etc.
Rule IL. If any corpse shall remain unreco
nized for forty-eight hours, the superintende
shall have the body photographed 10 the cloth
in which il was found; and should any regul
5 physician desire TO embaln any pnclaim
body, he may have the privilege to do
: provided he obtain the written consent Of I
Coroner and the Commissioners OF Markets a.
City Property.