| Show I 1 A SHOCKING SCANDAL investigation of the san francisco asylum inhuman treatment of or infants the frightful literally a slaughter house fo fop r babies bables SAN FRANCISCO riiA cisco oct 9 A A shochin scandal waa was caused liero here by the corone coroners rg investigation of tile sail francisco foundling asylum where thirty throe three babies have bave died within tho the past six weeks the place closed thursday last and twenty four foundlings were given into the custody ot of the catholic infant shelter the tile coroner ascertained that thirty two walls waifs died for lack of nutrition inanition and a scourge of grigus the daughters of the good hepherd publicly branded the asylum as a slaughter house for babies the sanitary conditions of tile asylum are v ana ery e bad by ad it Itis is charged that the nurses 1 and attendants occupied sunny 11 rooms up stairs and kept the babies babics in damp dark apartments before the coroner boror coror ier it developed that dead babies had been ben kept on the premises 0 four da days the official otti cial undertaker of the institution testified that when the infants died the tile attendants put the bodies in in a box under the fro front doorsteps c LL and kept them there like 11 so much 11 garbage gar wage until he lie came to take them away ho ile bad found three bodies cast 1 out indiscriminately inton into a box atone at one li I 1 time he ile removed them without noti y i n g ti le v 0 p le a t the asylum the wll i n q u es t 1 b 0 re s umed next wednes 1 1 day |
