The morning call., 1891-12-15
SUPERVISORS.
A Penalty for Those Who Rent
Houses for Certain Purposes.
Women Complain Of Alleged Abuses at the
Public Morgue-Veto Of the Health
Board Order.

At the weekly meeting of the Board Of
Supervisors all the members were present
except Ebert.
A communication was received from the
Fire Commission, calling attention to the
scarity of hydrants in the vicinity of public
school buildings, and asking that six addi-
tional bydrants be set on the streets ad-
jacent to the various school buildings
A communication from Auditor Smiley
stated that in the recent fire in his office 600
volumes were mtged and would require
reminding and relabeling. Seventy volumes
need recopying.
A resolution was adopted requiring the
Southern Pacific Company to provide sys-
tenn OF movable gates for street crossings
between Ninth and Channel streets and
sOuthweSteriy TO Guerrero, from Twenty
fourth to Twenty-fif,h.
The ordinance providing that hereafter no
wooden buildings, except churches, shall be
erected higher than fifty feet was referred
back to the Fire Department Committee.
Mayor Sanderson submitted veto to the
order providing that the Supervisors shall
appoint members of the Board Of Health
As already stated. the grounds of the veto
are that there are no vacancies TO fill and
that the order is illegal
j. 7. jones was appointed guard at the
House of Correction, vice John Smith, re-
signed.
Supervisor Aver introduced an order pro-
vldlng that all persons renting houses on
Morton street for immoral purposes shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor. Punishment is
provided as follows: First offense, 500 fue
and twenty days Imprisonment; second
offense, 500 and thirty days; third offense,
$500 and ninety days. The order WAS re-
ferred to the Health and Police Committee,
A communication, of which the following
is copy, was read and referred to the
Health and Police Committee for investiga-
ton:
To The Honorable. the Board Of Supervisors of
the Guy and County Of San Francisco-GEN-
TLEMEN: AT meeting Of tho Omens Society
FOR the Correction OF Public Abuses, held al ll2
Ofarrell street on Friday, December 11th, at 8
O'Clock in the evening, the appended resolutions.
were unanimously adopted with Instructions
that the same be transmitted to your honorabIs
body:
WHEREAS 1t has come to the notice of the
pubic during the administration of our present
Coroner, DIR. William l. Garwood that female
corpses at the Morgue are unnecessarily
handled In nude condition and exhibited 10 the
vulgar attendants OF the institution, whose
morbid and depraved nature is manifested IN a
suteratiye degree, and whereas, the most com.
monplace deeency. not 10 speak OF the nobler
and more exalted Iues OF civilized society," de.
mands prompt and complete change In this re-
laIlon at our public Morgue, ana whereas, &C.
eGoIdlng TO admissions OF The officials at the
CoronePs office, tho apartments At the Morgue
are alive with ycimin aud therefore unit for The
reception Of human bodies,
Resolved That The Board OF Supervisors he
and they are hereby petltoned most respectfully
ana earnestly to like Official notice OF the scan
dalous ana inhuman treatment that deceased
IemaIes are snbleci TO at The public Morgue,
under the administration Of Coroner Garwocd
Resolved, That the Board Of Supervisors be
and they are hereby petitioued to maNe pro-
vision Tor separate apartment at the public
Morgue for the reception of bodies Of deceased
females. aud that inatTon be assigned to have
supervision OF The female department In the
NlOTRue, o lue END mat the ScauuIiOUs
human treatment complained of may cease and
decency. cleanliness and honor may prevail
Very respectfully subscribed. DIR. Frances G,
TTeadwell, DR.. A. WInZell, Mrs. Howell Mrs.
Murphy, DIR. Mary Patterson.