Caduceus Cemetery
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Caduceus Cemetery

Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA

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    Coordinates: 43.72367, -72.27671
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The Caduceus Cemetery was established sometime in the 1930s as the burial ground for bodies after they had been used for anatomical teaching as well as final resting place for stillborns from Mary Hitchcock Hospital. The earliest burial of a body used in the anatomy department in the record is 1935. The cemetery, located just beyond what is now the golf course at the recently closed Hanover Country Club, is marked with a plaque that reads 1944-1966, though it is unclear where these dates came from since we know from 1943 correspondence that the Caduceus Cemetery was in use well before 1944.

In the 1960s attitudes toward body donation shifted significantly, aided by the Universal Anatomical Gift Act of 1968 which provided that "any person of sound mind and 18 years of age may give all or any part of his body for transplantation or other medical purposes." The medical school began receiving donations and gift requests in such numbers that they had to turn people away.

Use of the Caduceus Cemetery for burial ceased around 1966 according to documentation.

Cremation is now used with donor burial in plots in the official Dartmouth cemetery. The first remains were interred in the Dartmouth cemetery in 1967 and remains that are not returned to family for burial continue to be interred there today.
The Caduceus Cemetery was established sometime in the 1930s as the burial ground for bodies after they had been used for anatomical teaching as well as final resting place for stillborns from Mary Hitchcock Hospital. The earliest burial of a body used in the anatomy department in the record is 1935. The cemetery, located just beyond what is now the golf course at the recently closed Hanover Country Club, is marked with a plaque that reads 1944-1966, though it is unclear where these dates came from since we know from 1943 correspondence that the Caduceus Cemetery was in use well before 1944.

In the 1960s attitudes toward body donation shifted significantly, aided by the Universal Anatomical Gift Act of 1968 which provided that "any person of sound mind and 18 years of age may give all or any part of his body for transplantation or other medical purposes." The medical school began receiving donations and gift requests in such numbers that they had to turn people away.

Use of the Caduceus Cemetery for burial ceased around 1966 according to documentation.

Cremation is now used with donor burial in plots in the official Dartmouth cemetery. The first remains were interred in the Dartmouth cemetery in 1967 and remains that are not returned to family for burial continue to be interred there today.

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