Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-10-19

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 Look at me-"
 The speaker was a man of medium height and rather inclined to stoutness His hair Is turning gray, but his eyes were bright and cheery and his face glowed with the hue of health.
 "How old am Ir'
 The writer placed his age at 40 years at venture, though 9S years would have been apparently an equally close guess.
 That's what most people take me for. am nearly 40 years old, and have spent the last seventeen years of my life in the city dead house. Do I look slcklyY'
 KILLING BAD DOORS.
 Albert White, the keeper of the city morgue, was discussing the death of Joseph Fogarty, for several years the assistant keeper, and was indignantly denying the widely credited report that constant intercourse with the bodies of the dead had evil effects upon the health of the living.
 "I have employed hundreds of men and women here," continued the keeper, 'since have had charge of this depart ment, and have never yet had one die from the effects of handling dead bodies or being constantly among them. Some have died, it is true, but they have only themselves to blame for 1t. have had seven assistant keepers. Fogarty was the last. My first assistant was the only man who contracted disease here, and am not quite sure that this Is the place he caught it. One day he came down with smallpox, though we never had case of smallpox in the building to our knowledge. He recovered and is | now an attendant in the City Insane asylum. Fogarty died from heart dis case. He was born with 1t. Why, every week during the college sessions for years Dr. Jeneway would havo Joe go up before his class for examination. He had triple murmuring of the heart, so he called 1t, and he was one of the only cases ever known. When he had his leg taken of there was consulta- tion of twenty or thirty big doctors to decide whether they would give him ether or not. They concluded he would die if they didn't, and so they gave it to l him and he recovered"
 As the keeper talked the wind shifted to the east and the breeze that brought miniature white caps to the waves that slashed under the city dead house also carried into the office faint odor from the long, low room that extends over the 1 l1a H/olioo
 Smell that odor?" went on Mir. White, throwing wide open the door. "Well. that's all we ever get, and there's noth- ink unhealthy in that. It's not alto gether pleasant, I know, but If you didn't know what 1t came from you'd hardly notice 1t. We pack the bodies in red carbonate of lime. That absorbs the ani- mai moisture. Then we keep the stone floor always wet. That carries of tho o-lor as fast as it is made. That is the way we manage to keep healthy"
 But Isn't work in the morgue calcu. lated to affect Q mans mind more than is does his bodyT
 "Why should it any more than the work of an undertaken? Look at me, rejoined the keeper with touch of par. donable pride in his tones. "1 think my mind is as healthy as most mems. and I've spent most lifetime here. After a mans used to the work there is noth ing excessively unpleasant about It.
 NO KEEPER EVER COMMITTED SUICIDE
 "I have never had helper go insane It doesn't affect their moral natures ir the least so far as can find out never knew 1t to affect any ones particularly We never had a helper commit suicide and 1 never knew of a man's killing himself iD or near the morgue.
 Do you have any trouble in getting hclpers?"
 ''I can get more than need. Ther, are always a dozen or more application than there are vacancies, and when discharge man I am overrun with ap plications within twenty-four hours. No 1 tell you. the morgue is healthy plac to work in, public opinion to the con trary notwithstanding, and Q man wh, tnkes care of himself can live here |. long as he can anywhere"
 Tho late Dr. Frank II. Hamilton. wh won national reputation during tn fatal Illness of President Garfield, agree, with MT. White tn every particular. ant even went farther.
 "The effects of rank growth of vege tation," wrote the doctor, "nre muc more pernicious to human life and healt than the decay of animal structures. fiie great Pnrisian slaughter houses especially Montfaucon, where annual arc brought 10000 to t3,0G0 dead, dyin or worn out horses. dogs, cats and othe domestic animals, every portion of who's bodies was there worked over and use up for various economic purposes, tn workmen enjoy as good health as th same class of laborers in any other COG, patton.
 '1n New York" he continued, "whel large slaughter houses are scattered her and there along the water fronts, anon the poorest novels and tenement house ] am told that there does not exist an more sickness than is usually foun among the same number of poor in Q the crowded tenement districts of tl |. city. Yet there is not slaughter hou: in New York in which more or less the blood from the slaughtered animal with fragments of flesh. etc., do not V in or about or under the floor, there { undergo putrefaction. The mortuar and general sanitary statistics of Chicae will probably not show that it is m more unhealthy today than it was befol it became the slaughter house of u world. Dessault, the famous Frene anatomist, was fond of repeating the ol = saying, When the animal dies the poisc dies. too. ."-New York Mail and Expres
 F. H. Winston, of Chicago, who served United States minister to Persia, thinks the are only about dozen Persians in this cou try, and like number of Americans in Pc sia, mostly missionaries.
 Edwin Booth is prominent figure
 Narragansett pier. He will spend the sur mer there with his daughter, at whose cc tage he is stopping. Mir. Booth seems mu, given to pedestrianism this year.
 Charles B. Woodcock. once celebrated