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saa..Feat3 aa esgs..is close s4ess.
efast's Uesf ulost pee9s tAke me II.
AL 4sar . ~ ySaFs e.a taa ave sp~at +
H.. ls.t seventeen vssrs az my Iiis IA t-s
eltv dead aause D. ! laek sleAlyt'
aib-rs "a atts t4s ksspsf 81 tEs Ne"
Y.rz Cily Nafx1e Was discussing tAe &c F
csnt aeath or Jeseph toS~fts. for seFef1'
yeafs tae assistants keeper, sad as in'i'k
nantlv dsuynz tie wisely efesiiied fe-1etf
rhat constant intercourse VIA tto tti'ss
offle lead L4d evil Elects q pa ti.s lea-t4
OF rae lv'ug
II lafe employed huudreds - men Sno
wenea here. continued -thz Keeper si'-eS
have sai charge ol tlis department ana
have revsr s-t laa one die from tie effects
ofhanc lag asa5 b9a - or being constantly
among them. ~oEe have d.-t. IL = true,
butt-sy nave only lneusel 4es 20 blame
for IL have hah segea assistant keepers
Ts,srtv wasths last Ny nrst assistant
.,atfl. only mah who contracted a dis
cas-. here. and km not quite sure thai
ri, i. the plbe- az caught H. One
CAV lie came down with smallpox, though
We never had "A case OF smallpox IN tie
building 70 our knowledge. lie recovered
and is now an attendant ia the City Insane
Asylum Fogarty dlet from heart els
ease. li- was born with Il Why, every
week during the col ege sessions. Tor
years. d. Jaueway w0cld have Joe 80 up
before his class for examination. lie had
tribe fuurmer' OF the heart, 20 he called
II and ne was one Of the few cases ever
known. When be had his leg taken OF
there WIS a consultation OF twenty or
thirty b.. doctors TO decide whether they
would give him ethe. or not They con-
c.uded lie would die II they didn't, and SC
they gave IL 70 him and he recovered
As the keeper talked the wind shifted 10
tie east aud the breeze that brought MN
iatage white caps TO the wares that slSshed
under tie city dead house also carried late
the Office a faint oder from the long, 10"
room that extends over the river ana
where the bodies are kept.
s'Suel that odorf" went on Mr.. " hite,
throwing wide open the door. Well
that's al! we ever get, and there's nothing
unhealthy ia that. Us not attogetnet
pleasant, know. but il you didn't know
what il ctlne from you'd hardly notice u.
We pack the bodies in red car5olate oil
lime. That a6sorbs the animal moisture.
Then we keep the stone door always wet.
That carries OF the odor rs fast as IL ls
made. That is the way We manage TO
keep healthy"
Bat isn't work in the morgue caicula-
ted 20 feet mans mind more than II
does his body'"
why should il any more than the work
OF an undertaken? Look at me. reJoined
the keeper with "a touch OF pardonaole
pride in his tones. Il think my nina IL
rs healthy as most mems, and I've spent
most lifetime here. Aftera mans used
10 the work there Is nothing excessively
unpleasant about IL"
Bat you spoke of your helpers dy-
ing?"
That's their own fault. They drink.
You can't expect man 10 I'LL up on
whiskey every night and come TO work
every morning the year round without
his being knocked out sooner or later. |
don't care what business he may be in.
It's worse in this business than in n good
many others The room is dark and damp
and the men catch cold. When man
takes "A drink OF whiskey for his breakfast
instead Of food and then works all day on
damp stone floor Is IL any wonder his
health breaks DOWN. | doa't think
have had half dozen sober, well
helpers since have been here. They get
their board washing aud lodging free IN
Bellevue Hospital and depend upon the
friends Of persons brought here, or the
uuGertakers or the doctors for their
money. II they kept sober there would be
no danger Of their hrs. ing down"
what disease Go they usually con
trnct?"
Consumption"
Does this sort Of life give them a
particularly horrible Kind Of delirium
trcmeus"
Il have never had helper who had
delirium tremens ! never had one gC
insane L. doesn't affect their moral
natures in the least so far as i can find
OUT. / never knew it to affect any ones
particularly. We never had n helper
commit suicide and / never knew of a
man killing himself in OF near the
II rro.gle. Oae man did shoot himself al
the hospital entrance, hut he had never
been in the moreue even as a visitor that
know Of"
DO You have any trouble in getting
helpers;"
Il can ge' more than need. There are
always a dozen or more applications than
{ there are vacancies. and when / discaarC.
q man for druu kenness. as j. usually toe
case. am oyerrun with applicants within
tweniy-lour hours. 30. tell you. th,
morguc - healthy place 30 work in
pub lc opinion TO the contrary, n0t~ ith
standiu.. man who taxes care o. him
relf can live here n long a. anywhere"
The opinion Of Keeper White, while no
TIE publicly accepted one, has been share
BIZ more than one student * this quer1
MACE of lie. The late Dr.. Frank IL
Hamilton, the famous surgeon who won
national repuiaI ion during the IA a.ilines'
Of Precedent Garfield. agreed with Mr.
White ia every particular, and even wen
farther. a few months before lis deai'
in 1856. he visited tie morgue and close j
iutrrrogated Mr. White regarding his owl
and The health 81 bis ass stants. he en-
bodied the result % his research ia tu'
last paper be ever read. r. was read before
fhe Soc ely % Medical Jurisprudence. q
which be wac tue resident. and WAS
strong Argument against TIE sanitnr'
necessity o. cremation.
The effects 81 a rank growth n vegeta
tion. wrote the doctor. care wucr NOR
pernicious to human lite and health thar
the decay q animal structures. r. ta
great Partisan slaughter houses esVscia.
Nonffsucon where annually arc Dough
lq0oo go 81 GO dead. dying or worn or