THE MORGUE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 25 July 1907, Page 2

THE MORGUE.

We don’t like talking about morgues—it’s a gruesome subject. But they are necessary for the purpose of depositing the bodies of persons who have come to an untimely end, and further for the convenience of holding post mortem examinations which the law demands. The Foxton morgue, unlike many other morgues it has been our duty to visit, is only a morgue in name. It possesses no benches, no concrete floor, no windows “no nothing.” It is a bare corrugated iron shed. Our representative ,was present during a recent post nlortem examination and the medical man and police were put to considerable inconvenience and loss of time by reason ot the lack of necessary fixtures. We will not enter into details but the respect which is due to the dead who are deposited in the morgue demands the immediate attention of the Borough Council. After the inquest yesterday, Mr Hornblow, one of the jury men, brought the matter before the Acting Coroner and the jury were unanimous that the matter should be brought under the notice of the Council. The Acting Coroner promised that this would be done.