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[Urist McBusDriver]

Today I learned that, while it is excellent to have a well in the hospital, it is perhaps not so good to supply the well from the first cavern via a long and completely unguarded shaft.

On a related note, I've just killed my first Forgotten Beast, a blind sparrow with a shell that entered the fort via the hospital and killed a few animals, a couple of (I think) useless dwarfs, and took one arm each off my original manager/bookkeeper/leaderbloke and some other passerby before a squad of miners tore into it with pickaxes.

The problem is - what do I do with the limbs? They're sitting in the main hallway occasionally producing miasma. They're not being taken to the catacombs. I've assigned two coffins to the newly amputee'd dwarfs but no-one's taking the limbs then either. Shall I just chuck them down the garbage chute?

[Psieye]

Do you have a refuse stockpile? They should automatically be sent there I think. Else upgrade that pile into graveyard/corpses too.

[Hyndis]

They should be stored in a refuse/corpse stockpile.

Once the dwarf dies, be it from old age or an unfortunate accident, the limb will be buried with the rest of the dwarf. So long as the rest of the dwarf is still alive it will just sit in the stockpile.

[Girlinhat]

Really, body parts are reunited in death?

[Hyndis]

Really, body parts are reunited in death?

No combined back together no, but they're placed in the coffin together.

[Flaede]

depending on your 'o'rders menu settings, any bits of your own dwarves that get chopped off can get autoforbidden. You should check to see they are unforbidden, if no one is hauling them to your morgue stockpile.

[Marthnn]

In general, any body part, be it corpse or limb, that belongs to a dead member of your fortress or a dead pet should be taken to a proper coffin or, if none is available, to a corpse stockpile. This is NOT a refuse stockpile, which can accept any other corpse or body part.

Limbs of alive members of your fortress probably go to one of those 2 stockpiles, I'm not sure which.

[Girlinhat]

Generally, corpse stockpile is for useless stuff.  Refuse is for workable things like butcherable corpses.

[Urist McBusDriver]

I just chucked them down the garbage chute. I don't have garbage stockpiles - I have two chutes. A deep one for normal stuff and live goblins (until I get round to learning how to train a military, and then I'll feed the goblins to the trainee axedwarves) and a short one with a drawbridge at the bottom for atom-smashing low-quality furniture and unwanted stone. The dwarf's arms are at the bottom of the long chute, under a LOT of goblin limbs, and presumably someone will collect them when those dwarves die.

Thanks for the help!

[Flaede]

I just chucked them down the garbage chute. I don't have garbage stockpiles - I have two chutes. A deep one for normal stuff and live goblins (until I get round to learning how to train a military, and then I'll feed the goblins to the trainee axedwarves) and a short one with a drawbridge at the bottom for atom-smashing low-quality furniture and unwanted stone. The dwarf's arms are at the bottom of the long chute, under a LOT of goblin limbs, and presumably someone will collect them when those dwarves die.

Thanks for the help!

Actually, after dumping something, it is auto-forbidden. No one will ever collect them unless you unforbid them.
Kudos to your well-organized dumping scheme.