THE DUNEDIN MORGUE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 36, 10 January 1884, Page 2

THE DUNEDIN MORGUE.

. lUNltBI) 1«BBS8 ASSOCIATION.) . ' ' JDunedin, January 8. . . A.t^onje.bf J§fe inquests held yester?day, tneTjury brought m a rider comj men ting upon the wretched morgue tliaf is at present m use m the city. It i«-a small room belonging formerly to the old Supreme Court building which' hks lately 'li^eh'/pullcd down, and it is m a mo.it dilapidated condition; -No one seems to have the care of it, and the two corp»es which were on - yesUftdar were covered Iwith • old ras*B, whilo the clothes taken off dead bodies previously .^brought m, lay strewn about. The rider was as follows : — ._!_'. T_he Jury desire to say that they found the morgue m a disgracefully dirty -condition, ■ containingt .an accumuhition of dirty rags, smeared with blood. In their opinion, proper provision should he made for a Coroner's Court, with a morgue attached." The coroner, Da Hbcken/iii endorsing the verdict, spoke of the injustice of always holding inquests m the hotel nearest the morgue, as the landlord did not receive the slighest remuneration, rle added that he had several times written to the .Uoyernmen.ton, t^e mat-teiy-and would do^a-'againl . ..L"L 'j. '