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MORTUARY
During the year 89 bodies were received into your mortuary. 69 were
either for post mortem or inquest; 14 were deposited by the undertaker, to
await burial; 6 were deposited owing to the bodies being of an infectious
nature; 5 were retained after inquests, for burial, owing to decomposition
having set in.
Your Mortuary Attendant has returned to his civil work, after having
been away some 18 months on military duties.
DUST COLLECTION.
The collection of dust is still carried out by contract. The number of
vans employed is certainly insufficient for a weekly collection. I can only
reiterate my former remarks that at least 8 vans are required, besides the
vans used for picking up refuse from the large institutions. The sheet used
for the daily return of streets done show conclusively that a weekly collection
is not carried out. No doubt the labour question is a difficult one, but
better supervision is badly needed.
The present shoot at the Sewage Farm will not be long before it is filled
up, but I am hoping it will carry us over the present crisis. It will then need
the Council's serious consideration as to the disposal of refuse. No doubt
an up-to-date destructor would give good results, especially judging from those
obtained in other districts.
Owing to the shortage of labour at the Weighbridge Office, we were not
able to keep an exact account of the amount of dust deposited on the shoot,
but from our own observations about 4,000 van loads were deposited, and
the approximate weight was 7,000 tons.
The number of dust-bins supplied was 129.