The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-10-15
LOOKING ATTHE CORONERS
THE INQUESTS OYBR THE PAUPER
DEAD IN THE MORGUE.
The Kind OF Men Impapclied as Jurors 1.-THE
CorOners are Hurried by Other Basiness-
Part Of Coroner Cookers story.

The Kind Of Men Impnsciied as Jurcr. 1.-THE
Coroners are Hurried by Other Business-
Part Of Coroner CrOkers story.
A committee of gentlewomen from the
State Charities Aid Association went before the
Senate Investigating Committee in the Firth
Avenue Hotel, yesterday, and told what they
had seen In the several institutions that they
had visited. They regarded as an evil the eui-
ployment of nurses unfit to be nurses in the
Childrcns Trajectory and Hospital on handalfs
Island. Many Of the nurses there employed are
Incorporate, and when the authorities are
forced to discharge them their places are often
nlled by cDnvi1ts. IL Ia further complained that
no industrial trades are taught 70 the children.
Moreover, all the wards In the hospital over
crowded. there being forty occupants Of twenty
beds The food IL abundant, but not OF the
proper kind for children. In the charity hosp-
tai on Blackwells Island the beds are Of the
poorest kind, often nothing put httle straw IN
the ticking, and clothing Is scarce. IL was men
toned that one woman was In the hospital ten
days without a change Of understanding. NO
hot water s TO he had at night, and IN some
cases In which the phvsci ns have ordered hot
baths, cold baths have been given. On one day
In February last The re was only coal enough at
the hospital 10 run the engine and none for
heating purposes. The same was true on the
sth Of April On the 18th of December,
thermometer Indicated fortv-seven degrees.
The hot air with which the wards are supplied
= r.
The wards are overcrowded there being most
Of the time from eight to ten more patients
than heds. Sometimes two beds are placed SIDE
by side and made to accommodate three pa
tients by making then lie erOssways.' The
wards In the Charity Hosuital are overcrowded:
Col Hastings appeared for the hoard OF
Health, and said that In regard tn Mrs. Hav-
lnnds testimony taken nv the committee on
Tuesday, he could prove that when her children
had smallpox the hoard Of Health did not have
control of either the reception building or the
smallpox hospital. lie would also prove that
hpr "a n
four hours after the board was Olcially iD-
formed of his sickness.
Coroner Eickhuff continued his testimony. lie
sworc that the jures always met either where
the dead BODY was or ~ the Coronets ONCE.
| In few eases the Jury did not view the BODY.
| generally when the friends objected To having
| nn inquest IN their house. He knew that the
| law required that the jury should see the body,
| but he sometimes saw 1T to disregard the law.
| lie ALWAYS viewed the body.
Mr. Davenport called the Coroner's attention
| 20 several inqutStions. among mem one over
| the body Of Edward Esslcr, Jr. On the papers
| In the Ess Ter case was the testimony OF Dr.
| Marsh, the deputy. ami that OF MIS-. Earring
| ton, and six names were signed, all German.
Edward Esscr ~ s2s West Thirteth street
| swore that on the 3Oth Of October last his son
| Edward fell and broke his arm that u was
| amrutated that gangrcne set IN, aud that on
| the 81 OF November he uied. On the dav follow
| ing Coroner EirkhuG called and had some con
| vcrsation with his COUSIN. Mr. Darlington. IN
the room IN winch the cor Sc lay. Ihere was
| no inquest to his knowledge, nor was any jury
| implnelled. His wife eOiroOorated his testi-
| munv.
| elected in iS,j, he SAID, and had formerly been
for two years m the Board OF Aldermen. lie was
| "A machinist hy trade. His attention was called
| to thrty-une inQuistion papers on which the
| san'c names Appeared A. jurors. OF these names
! the Coroner said he knew only A. y. White, the
/ X cptT of the Morguc, hut he thought the rest
were all emu ycd about the MOrgue. In eX-
~ nation OF the fact that these men served so
often, he SAID that often after impanelling a
jury and viewing the houy, the inquest was al
| JOurued to the Murguc. and that the Jurors not
appearing there he had tn impancl a second
jury. He always summoned a iury III every
case because he diu not like To- take the re-
sponsihilty Of rendering a yer ltct himself
lhtn you do MOI imp. mel jury IN SMALLPOX
cases and the Ike, simuly Tor the s. extra YOU
get by doing 90 asked Mr.. Davenport.
NO" said the Coroner; " | don't like To take
the responsibility Of verdict
50 you object to taking the responsibility
the law allows" SAD tue Commissioner.
| Mr.. Davenport showed thirty cases In which
the name of tine assistant M fgue keeper ap-
peared AZ a juror, aud eighty nine VI which the
name Il an emI lnNce at tho Morguc appear
an the Coroner said that II WAS on account ol
having to close 50 many cases In the NJ r Ne
because jurors would not appear alter an al
JOurument.
The examination OF Coroner Croker 10 to b,
continued to day