Coffined bodies at New York City Morgue waiting for the coroner. A morgue is used for the storage of human corpses awaiting identification or removal for autopsy or disposal by burial, cremation or other method. Bellevue Hospital was founded in 1736 and is the oldest public hospital in the US. In 1798, the city purchased Belle Vue farm a property near the East River which had been used to quarantine the sick during yellow fever outbreaks.
New York City Morgue, Bellevue Hospital, 1868
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