There’s not any real discussion of this–just not typical to find county board reports indicate disposition of bodies. There are also reports of disposition of bodies of those who died from consumption as well. This is something I came across while looking for hours of the Cook County courts in 1900.

This is from page 16 of the 10 December 1900 Official Record of Proceedings Board of Cook County [Illinois] Commissioners and is available digitally at GoogleBooks.