The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-26
TO INVESTIGATE
 CASE OF KOBEL Authorities Will Look Into What Appears to Be
 Gross Neglect
DIR. BLUMER SPEAKS
 FOR HIS COMMITTEE
Matter Will Be Thoroughly Looked Into Says Presi-
 dent Eli Whitney.

The prudential committee of the New Haven hospital held a meeting yesterday afternoon in regard to the body which was remembered at the New Haven hospital Wednesday night after it had lain in the morgue eigh- teen days. As F. A. Hotchkiss is in Baltimore and Harry G. Day in Phil adelphia both trying to learn how to properly run a hospital according to Mir Coddington, the superintendent of the New Haven institution, and as there are but three members of the prudential committee 1t would be an interesting psychological discovery to find out just whom the third member, | pr. George Rlumer, met.
 At any rate MT. Coddington submit- ted report on the case of Joserh Kobel, who lay unclaimed and forgot- ten in the morgue for eighteen days after he died of typhoid fever, and l Dr. Blumer moved and seconded and carried the motion that the matter be 1 laid on the table until the next week when the other two members of the committee should return with the full knowledge of how to successfully run an institution for the cure of disease. The contents of the report will not | be made public m full till the return of the other members of the pruden 1 tial committee, but Dr. Blumer told I the Journal ana Courier last night l the reasons offered by the hos I pital for tle storing of the body in l the hospital morgue. Not a word
 was said in the report about the ex- istence of the body being forgotten.
 the reason for keeping 1t in the l morgue being that the authorities j were awaiting the members of Kobers 1 moval of the body. Day after day the
 hospital waited, and finally Kobels l family, in whom the hospital rested
 it's hopes, backed down, and the hos 'trsital ts had only the body as a result of
 its treatment.
 Turning to the town of Seymour,
 the hospital authorities met quite d
 different reception. As soon as it was
 proven that the case was 8 Seymour < one the town sent the w. L. Ward
 company after tic bcdy and secured
 it. Whether the hospital authorities
 even asked the claimants who they
 were Is question, as inquiry there
 the night before last as to who took
 away the body, was unsatisiied, but at
 any rate some one got the corpse,
 after 1t had laid eighteen days in state
 in the morgue, and the hospital was : happy for it was not out financially
 on account of the case.
 Eli Whitney, president of the hos-.
 pital, and acting president of Yale, ast
 we'll as the head of the New Haven Water company and chairman of the board of education, naturally has not
 time to look into a matter of so little
 consequence and says that the matter is up to the prudential committed of the institution, of which he is presi-
 dent and that the looking after the disposal of the body was up to the au- .. thorities of the institution of which he l, is president Whether he meant that it was up to Yale, the water company, the board of education or the hospital :, to dispose of the body was a question after this ambiguous answer, but Mr. Whitney later promised to look into
 the matter.
 pr. B1umer also will look into the
 matter. Not only this, but since his
 attention has been called to It by the public press, he will make thorough
 investigation of 1t, providing the other members of the prudential committee agree. MT. Coddington will look into 5 it, the night clerk, MT. Hall, will uri-
 doubtedly help, and also the day force. so it seems that now the matter e will not pass unnoticed.
 [ However, Health Officer Wright says the matter is nothing to him
 until complaint has been made. He was in Branford last night and no a complaint reached him there when he was interviewed by the Journal and I Courier.
 FIRE IN EAsTFORD WOODS.