Human Remains at Froedtert Have Living Advocate
At least 1,300 indigents buried on hospital grounds could be dug up as part of a building expansion, and sent to UWM for study. It isn't the first time, and a longtime advocate for the remains of the poor is indignant.
OUTSIDE MILWAUKEE, WI -- A proposed expansion of a local hospital will make more room for the living, and better prospects for keeping them alive and in the best health possible. But it will leave much less room for the dead. Froedtert Hospital's plans for a new 480,000-square-foot building to house expanded surgical, inpatient and outpatient care is proposed to stand atop what is now a cemetery containing the remains of at least 1,300 people. They were the poor and indigent of Milwaukee County, who died in its care at the public hospital and the almshouse and were buried on the grounds, dating back well over a century before the practice was halted in 1974. Froedtert’s plan calls for digging up their remains, but not for reinterring them …
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Mary Blank
3:51 pm on Tuesday, April 30, 2013
I agree, Father. One of those remains might possibly be my Grand Uncle Charles Mahoney, who never harmed anyone, but had been labeled "Insane" because he was mentally challenged. more ›