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Title: History of the Philadelphia almshouses and hospitals from the beginning of the eighteenth to the ending of the nineteenth centuries ...: showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the boards of overseers of the poor, gaurdians of the poor and the directors of the Department of Charities and Correction
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Lawrence, Charles, b. 1837
Subjects: Philadelphia (Pa.). Guardians for the Relief and Employment of the Poor Philadelphia (Pa.). Board of Guardians of the Poor Philadelphia (Pa.). Dept. of Charities and Correction Almshouses Hospitals Hospitals Hospitals
Publisher: (Philadelphia) : C. Lawrence
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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he ferryman isnt particular as to what he wears, and in personalappearance is suggestive of a cross between George Munday and aghoul. The duties of the ferryman, now that the ferry is abol-ished, are to supervise the engine by which water is pumped intothe buildings, to take charge of the banks of the river, to boss thepaupers in the quarry and to attend to the duties of the graveyard.The latter is an institution of which few people except medicalstudents and professors have any knowledge. Medical studentsduring the winter season are charged from ten to fifteen dollars foreach human subject for the dissecting tables, and a brisk businessis done during the terms of the college lectures in the corpses ofthose who die at the Almshouse and whose bodies are not claimedby friends. Of revenue to the city not a single cent inures by thesale of these bodies ; and as the ferryman has the sole control ofthe matter, the inference that the ferrymans position is a payingone is certainly admissable.
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History of Philadelphia Almshouses and Hospitals. o.-.p. A spicy debate occurred at the last meeting of the Board ofGuardians from this especial cause. Mr. Linnard, in the sincerityof his purposes, objects to this traffic in human corpses, and espec-ially when the proceeds do not inure to the benefit of the city.He is plain and blunt in his address, is Mr. Linnard, and signifi-cantly said that he preferred to see bodies openly carried away fromthe graveyards by medical students, to seeing the pockets of theSuperintendent surreptitiously lined by the auriferous traffic.Mr. Linnards resolution to abolisb the office of Superintendent ofthe Graveyard failed only by a tie vote. If renewed at some futuretime it will be likely to carry, for some of the members who votedin the negative voted under a misapprehension of the case. We are not the foe of science. For this reason we cannotoppose the relinquishment to the medical colleges of the bodies ofthose who die at the public charge, without f

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