Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-03-26 | Page 18 | Laicized Hospitals Try to Hurry Death

LAICIZED HOSPITALS TRY TO HUf DEATH Nurses Sign Certificates and Summon Sum-mon Undertaker "While Patient Pa-tient Still Lives. Special Cable to The Tribune. PARIS. March L'5. Tho horrors of laicized French hospitals aro described, according to the Belgian "Blen Pub-Iiu.no," Pub-Iiu.no," in a new book by Dr. Severin I card of Paris. He says that the doctors doc-tors never trouble themselves about certifying cer-tifying the fact of death. This Is done by the first nurse who conies along, and then the body Is carried car-ried to tho slabs and cut open, should the officials be curious to know the cause of the patient's Illness. If there bo no reason to do this, the attendant, to save time, will often begin to prepare for burial unfortunate wretches In their agony. Dr. I card states that ho has seen an Inr.mt laid out for autopsy whoso heart was beating two hours after It had been declared dead. Xo attention Is pale! In such matters to the requirements" of the law anil he judges that 10 per cent of the deaths take place .under the operators' opera-tors' knives. His remedy for such butchery Is an injection of strychnlno or the piercing of the heart with a needle. It is difficult lo see where the remedy is better than the evil. Such is the price paid bv l-rancu for the expulsion of her religious orders.