The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-23
NEGLECT OF THE SICK.

Miss Mary C. Lowell, daughter of
! Sidney Lowell, said she personally
talked to every man of eight regiments
of the regulars. Half of them We're on
the sick roll and many others were sick
too sick to so to the doctors tent
| There was a great scarcity of DOCTORS
and Miss Lowell considered many of
the contract doctors careless and indif-
! ferent to them. She gave names of
men she had found sick in their tents
and said that she had reported some OF
the cases to the reginental doctors, and
the doctors took no notice. She found
one man with a temperature Of 1906
and reported to DIR. Thomas. DR.
| Thomas said he would see him, but
when she visited the man twenty-four
hours later, the doctor had not seen
him. 4o.
Miss Lowell mentioned other doctors
who, she said, had neglected their duty
and said great suffering resulted from
the management of the ambulance
service. Miss Lowell said the condition
I of affairs in the general hospital was
| shocking. She copropprated the testi-
mony Of the previous Witnesses as to
the lack of sanitary precautions and
the plague of flies.
INDECENT BURIALS.
Rev. Henry B. Bryan of the Garden
City cathedral, presented himself TO
| speak of the manner in which the SOL
dieTs dying in hospitals were buried.
Mr.. Bryan went to Camp Wikoff on
Sept. 2. He said the publication of a
statement by Major Brown that all the
! bodies were decentlY buried had in
duced him to come forward to testify.
In his public statement" said Mr..
Bryan, major Brown said there was
| no truth in the report that the bodies
were not decently buried, that every
body was embalmed and decently cloth
ed in a new uniform; that a bottle con-
tanning his name and all the informa-
ton obtainable about him was buried
in his coffin, and that a cross marked
| every grave. L believe Major Brown
gave those orders and issued the
| clothes, but his orders were not car
| ried out. 1 know personally OF twenty
bodies that we're not buried as Major
Brown says they We're, and L wonder
what became of the clothing and money
paid for the embalming.
Il do not question Major Brown in
any way. He had not time to see that
his orders were carried out. Coughlin
and Kohler, who wore Bellevue hospital
| badges, were in charge of the burial of
the dead.
MY duties led me to the morgue
every day, and I stopped in to see who
had died during the night. I saw the
naked bodies of soldiers placed in bare
pine collins. and the name of the man
and his regiment were written on the
lid of the coffin. OF course the damp
earth quickly obliterated thoee marks,
and no further records were kept.
Sometimes the body was buried in a
night shirt, but they never took the
trouble to button the shirt.
1T was grossly indecent. AT the
morgue the attendants sat on the coffin
with the bodies in them. and chewed
and smoked, and told indecent stories.
[ rebuked them once, but they were
Bowery toughs and it is useless to talk
to them"
did you complain to anyone?" asked
General Beaver.
mot until read Major Browns
statement. 1 thought it was according
to the regulations to bury the dead
naked"
DO you know who was responsible
for the conditions you found?"
No; understand that a Mrs. Robel-
ing paid Coughlin and Kohler to go to
camp and take charge of the morgue
there. An autopsy was made on The
body of Barney Trio, and organs re-
moved were left lying about until the
attendants tied them up in a towel and
threw them away
NO MONEY, NO FOOD.