| Show REFUSED < A ftRpiT1 Funeral Went On YI Without Health S DepartmentOrder DR KEOGH IS INDIGNANt INDIGNAN-t RESULT OF CHBISTIAN SCIENCE TESATHENT I TE V N t Clerk Folland of thS oa of Health Declined William to Issue Joseph Wi 1a Taylor a Burial Permit For Little Dorothy Holliday But the interment in-terment Was Conducted An aye ay-e The death of little Dorothy the 1J monthsold daughter of lr and M3 Thomas W Holliday of 287 I street has caused a number of complications The child died on Sunday a a result of cholera infantum She had three weeks treatment by the Christian Science method under Mrs J E John has Joseph William Taylor buried ron r-on Monday without securing a permit from the city and the health office was considerably stirred up over the matter yesterday Refused a Permit Mr Taylor applet for the necessary permit on Monday morning but Clerk Folland refused to grant it on tlje ground that the death certificate was not signed bya regular physician The death certificate on which the under taker made his application was signfed by Mrs Johnnas Christian Science and Mrs Lucretia Kimball The latter did not add the words ChristIan Science to her name but she is a well known believer in this method of cure m Clerk Folland informed 1 Taylor that he would consult with Dr Keogh about the case but JMr Taylor went on with the funeral just > the same Dr Keogh when apprised of the circumstances cir-cumstances telephoned the undertakers under-takers establishment to hold the funeral back but the cortege had already ready started to MtL Olivet cemetery The state law makes it a mis demeanor for an undertaker to inter a corpse without a permit from the board of health in clUe of the first class In speaking of the matter Dr I Keogh said he would reprimand Mr Taylor as this a his first offense but that if he repeated Ht he would be prosecuted I proseuted t Keogh of Christian Science Of the treatment given the child Dr Keogh said I propose to take this up with City Attorney Hall tosee if Mrs Johnnas cannot be prosecuted She has signed herself Christian Science and I want to find out if she has the right to practice medicine in this way v > I understand thc p p1e profess to believe there is no such thing as disease dis-ease and yet here she Is certifying that the child died of cholera infantum I shall call the attention of the county medical society to the case and try to secure some concerted action I is time we were findung out just how far thee people can go Undertaker Taylor said he had no intention of violating the law He I would have held the funeral back if he had received notice to do so No trouble was anticipated by him in securing the burial permit after interment inter-ment Mr Taylor secured permissIon to bury the child in Mt Olivet from Major Edmund Wilkecy secrqtary of the m sociation Major Wilkes was censured yesterday by the authorities for permitting per-mitting permit the burial to go on without a loajor Wilkes Side He said last evening that his custom I has always been when application has been made for a grave on Sunday to grant it and depend upon the undertaker under-taker to furnish the regulation permit on the following day This has been done to avoid a hitch or delay in the burial of the dead and up to this time it has resulted in no trouble When he visited his office at 1 oclock last Sunday afternoon he found a memorandum on his desk from Joseph William Taylor asking for a grave for the Holliday child He at once issued I the order and took I himself to I Mr Tajiors office Monday being a I holiday he did not consider it strange I that he received no permit and it a not until yesterday he discovered tjiat no permit for burial had been issued by the board of health The major uaor does not take any of the blame to hImself him-self but says this affair will have the effect of rendering him more strict in future and may lead tf delay in some cases of burial |
