Australia's Deadly Heat Wave Overwhelms Morgue
Morgue packed as city sweltersADELAIDE has run out of space at the morgue as the city's killer heatwave drags on, forcing authorities to store corpses in a refrigerated freight container.
The central morgue is usually less than a third full, holding an average of 25 bodies, but only one of its 72 refrigerated compartments was unused yesterday, forcing temporary space for another 12 bodies to be set up in a 6m storage container.
Adelaide has recorded more than 75 sudden deaths since last Thursday, when temperatures climbed into the mid-40s, but the Health Department will not say how many were related to the most prolonged heatwave in the city in 70 years.
The scale of the emergency was highlighted yesterday when Health Minister John Hill told state parliament 600 patients had been treated in hospital for heat-related illnesses.
The central morgue is usually less than a third full, holding an average of 25 bodies, but only one of its 72 refrigerated compartments was unused yesterday, forcing temporary space for another 12 bodies to be set up in a 6m storage container.
Adelaide has recorded more than 75 sudden deaths since last Thursday, when temperatures climbed into the mid-40s, but the Health Department will not say how many were related to the most prolonged heatwave in the city in 70 years.
The scale of the emergency was highlighted yesterday when Health Minister John Hill told state parliament 600 patients had been treated in hospital for heat-related illnesses.
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