Anatomy acts of California : a survey of former and present laws / by A.W. Meyer.

  • Arthur William Meyer
Date:
1935
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Anatomy acts of California : a survey of former and present laws / by A.W. Meyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vided in previous laws, and they hardly were in a position to complain, for, as everyone knows, unclaimed bodies are voluntarily held much longer than required by law in order to afford time for the discovery of claimants who may pay much more for the burial than the public, for it is only in this way that the burial of the unclaimed dead can be made profitable in our metropolitan cen¬ ters, in one of which five hearses were waiting recently outside a public hospital for one indigent to die! That there really is keen competition among some undertakers for the burial of the unclaimed dead at the present time is attested by the follow¬ ing contemporary news item taken from one of our smaller dailies. It suggests that one still might appropriately quote the old couplet beginning “While rival undertakers hover round . . Indigent Dead to Be Buried at Cost of One Cent - Bureau,-, June 8. Because of close com¬ petition between rival undertaking establishments, - County has negotiated a contract under which indigent dead of that county will be buried during the coming year at one cent per funeral, according to word received here today from -. The contract was reported as providing for a ten- cent mileage charge for cases outside the County Hospital. The vultures of Benares have no one to tell them of the bringing in of the dead and only come to satisfy their hunger. Although the privilege of answering any ob¬ jections that might be raised to executive approval of the above bill by others or that the governor himself might have to it was asked in the name of all interested in it, no such opportunity was afforded although the bill was vetoed. When in¬ quiry was made regarding the reason for this veto, the governor concerned wrote saying he would be glad to consider the bill with us if we decided to introduce it at the next legislature, and added that he had vetoed it “on account of objections filed and for reasons which I deemed
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