The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-07
BOARD OF CHARITIES ACT ON M0RGUE
 MATTER
Adopt Resolution and Ask For Guidance from City
 Attorney.
Conditions of Poor at Lake view Home Said to Be
 Most Regrettable.

coroner W1lSon'S designating Rourke l & Rourke's undertaking par1ors as a city morgue instead of following the | usual custom of allowing the under taking firms under contract with the board of charities to also act as coroner's undertakers, was one of the several unusual features of the meet ing of the board of charities last evening. The attention of the board
 was again called to the fire dangers at Lakeview home in the annual re-
 port of the superintendent of Lake
 view home. From the German American alliance a communication
 was received assuring the board that
 the Germans would bury their own
 dead, rather than have them inferred
 at the expense of the city.
 Coroner Wilson recently notified
 Supt. Brennan that he had designated
 Ttourke & Rourke's undertaking par
 lors as the city morgue from April 1,
 and he advised him to act according
 ly in the disposition of bodies of per
 sons whose deaths were such as to
 become cases for the coroner. Prev
 iously the board had awarded the
 contract for burial of the pauper dead
 to CuIlinan & Mullins and Henry E.
 Bishop. the former for the first six
 months of the fiscal year beginning April l, and the latter for the re-
 mainder of the year. Supt. Brennan at the request of the board produced
 the communication last evening.
 Thereupon Commissioner Behrens
 offered a set of resolutions fol lows:
 Whereas. The board of charities has designated certain undertakers for the. present year to bury the dead who are to be buried at the expense of the town, and the coroner has departed from long esta blished custom in naming another undertaking firm, Rourke and Rourke, to take charge of the bodies of those meeting death by accident or violence and
 Whereas, It would be unSGemlV and disrespectful to the dead to have the bodies of the unfortunate poor un- necessarily carted about from one un dertaking firm to another, would have to be done unless the undertake ing firm designated by the coroner will be willing to bury all bodies placed in their charge or sent to their establish ment by the coroner, which may be- come subjects for burial at the ex- penSe of the town, at prices paid by the town for the burial of it's pauper dead; therefore be it
 Resolved, That it is the sense of this board that if the firm of Rourke and Rourke, designated by the coroner, 1 will bury all bodies which may be i brought to their undertaking rooms, | and which may have to be buried at the expense of the town, at the prices l fixed by the board for the burial of the | deceased poor, namely $4.75, then said designation of an undertaking firm by l the coroner shall be unobjectiona ble | to this board. But if the firm of 1 Rourke and Rourlze will not consent | to bury at said prices all bodies sent | to their rooms by the coroner and i which may have to be buried at the | expense of the town authorities, then | we would respectfully request the coroner to have all bodies which may be coroner's cases sent to the under taking firm named by this board for the burial of the pauper dead, in or der to avoid the highly objectionable course of having bodies unnecessarily from one undertaking place in the city to another, and be it
 Resolved, That a copy of these reSo- utions be sent by the clerk to the and that the coroner be re- spectfully requested to inform this whether or not the firm of undertak- ers designated by him to take care of cOroner'S cases will bury, at said fig 1res, all bodies which may turn out o be proper subjects for town burial.
 The resolutions were laid upon the able when it was voted to secure the
 Superintendent Cowles of Lake 7iew Home was still unable to ap- pear at the board meeting owing to lis recent accident; His annual re- crowded conditions of Lakeview lome, the unsanitary provision for are of insane, and what he termed n housing it's paupers in such tructure as Lakeview home. a brick hell with wooden floors and lath nd plaster partitions, with practi- ally no chance to escape and no fire He suggested a project hat the Charities commissioners for everal years have discussed, the se- turing of a bond issue through the ction of the legislature, to erect an dequate structure. He deals with he general conditions, and reviews he work of the farm for the year. | Ie submits figures showing the total reduce of the farm to be $7,190.34; ash received April 1, 1910, $639:S2; nee of cash on hand as $s76.s2; 1 reduce on hand, $1,599.5o; plank. osts, wood, etc, $1s2.2O. I hat during March there were more 1mates than any preceding month, sS, of whom 217 were men, and Fl Other figures follow: Mum CT of deaths from April 1, 1909, to -pril 1, 1910: Almshouse, male 24; emale g; tuberculosis hospital, 10; umber of insane patients. male 27, emaie IT, total A; number of D. T. ases, male 23, female 4; sent to Mid letown 28; sent to State Farm 3; eported 4.
 Tuberculosis Hospital l
 Total number of patients, 42; total | unber Of patients died, 10; cured r left, 4; left on own accord, 14; BIO, IA.
 Ambulance Transfers.
 Total number of ambulance trans I CTS, 19; total number of wagon ' 97; moving families, 2.
 Superintendent Cow1es reminds the I oard that the increased cost of Lake ! few home is largely accounted for | l the fact that recently the board [ ,rbade the superintendent to sell ny produce. He also said that un- l CT the system in use he knew little I lies used at the home, they being t urchased through the board. To dward F. Nevins, the retiring clerk [ the board, vote of thanks was F faitI1fI1