A HOSPITAL SCANDAL.

Lake County Press, Volume VII, Issue 384, 19 September 1878, Page 3

A HOSPITAL SCANDAL.

A horrible rumor has been circulated with respect to the treatment of the dead in the Hobart Town Hospital, which is given as follows by the ' Mercury':—"lt is said that the bodies of two patients who had died in the hospital have disappeared after having been dissevered, and the pieces placed in tubs like so much butcher's meat; that five or six bodies of patients dying in the hospital lie piled above each other in one grave, and that some of the bodies were placed in coffins without a stitch of grave clothes or other covering on them, and that the burial is that of dogs." The rumor coming to the knowledge of the Government, the Colonial Secretary instructed an officer to make inquiries as to the burials of the two men referred to, and the results of his investigations are such that the hospital board have been address-d with a request that the allegations made in the report should receive " immediate and searching " inquiry. The purport of the officer's report is that one of the men referred to was not buried without mutilation, and that no trace could be found of the remains of the other where he was supposed to have been buried. It was added that a woman was. found in one of the graves which was opened, coffined in a perfectly nude state. Such at present is the development of the hospital scandal."