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<DIV><SPAN class=231453816-28062005>To quote from </SPAN><SPAN
class=231453816-28062005>a news release by ODHS yesterday.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=231453816-28062005>"Hammer said the hospital has urns for
patients whose remains were not claimed after 1914, and most can be identified
by an urn number that corresponds to patient medical records.
<P>There are burial records for 1,539 other patients who died between the time
the hospital opened in 1883 until 1913 but no indication of where the remains
are now, Hammer said. He said records show that the state Legislature directed
that patient remains buried in the Oregon State Insane Asylum cemetery during
that 30-year period be exhumed for cremation in 1913, but the record ends there.
(The name at that time was also changed from asylum to hospital.)<SPAN
class=231453816-28062005>"</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN class=231453816-28062005>Maynard Hammer is the State Hospital deputy
superintendent.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN class=231453816-28062005>My grandmother died at the hospital in 1903
and she is one of the 1539.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN class=231453816-28062005>Ben
Tabler</SPAN></P></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>