CASISKIY-L Archives

Archiver > CASISKIY > 2004-03 > 1079107997


From: "Sue Silver" <>
Subject: [CASiskiyou] Old Sacramento County Hospital Cemetery
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 08:13:17 -0800


Greetings,

While working on construction for their new Cancer Center this past Tuesday,
UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento unearthed two sets of human remains
from the old Sacramento County Hospital Cemetery. Despite the fact that
both the county board of supervisors and the medical center knew the
cemetery was there, the county transferred the land to the center in 1973.
Davis intends to call these "archaeological remains" instead of bodies from
the old cemetery. In this way they may be able to circumvent California law
that requires certain steps be taken to relocate remains such as these.

The county should have relocated the cemetery to another cemetery before
handing the property over to UC Davis. Instead, now thirty years later, UC
Davis claims to be surprised to have "solved" the mystery of the missing
hospital cemetery!

Please help me to persuade the county and the medical center to follow
California law so that these past citizens of California will get a decent
reburial elsewhere. There are about 57 other old county hospital cemeteries
elsewhere in California that have the potential to suffer this same fate.

Please cut and paste the following message and send to Sacramento County
District 2 Supervisor Illa Collin at . You can also
fax it to her at (916) 874-7593. Or you can call her office at (916)
874-5481.

*********************************************

Honorable Illa Collin, District 2 Supervisor
County of Sacramento
700 H Street, Suite 2450
Sacramento, CA 95814

Dear Supervisor Collin:

I have learned about the "discovery" of the old County Hospital Cemetery
during the construction of the new wing of the UC Davis Cancer Center on
Stockton Blvd. I understand the County should have relocated the entire
cemetery before transferring this land to UC Davis, but didn't.

Please help ensure that the remains that the county buried in its hospital
cemetery are properly respected. Please work with UC Davis to relocate all
the bodies as required by California Health and Safety Code section 8000 et
seq.

Sincerely,

[Your Name, Address, phone number and Email address.]

***********************************************

Thank you for your assistance on this very important matter.

Sue Silver, State Coordinator
California Saving Graves
www.usgennet.org/usa/ca/state/


This thread: