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The Mortuary.
9. Early in the year I communicated with the Coroner for
West Kent as to the fitting up of the mortuary in the Churchyard,
and at his suggestion visited a model mortuary at
Bermondsey. The Board, on my report, had the existing mortuary
renovated and fitted with gas, lavatory, shells and other requisite
apparatus, and engaged the services of a caretaker. But the
existing mortuary, consisting of only one small room, is quite
inadequate
10. The Board authorised me at the commencement of the
year to employ an undertaker to remove a dead body to the
mortuary at any time when I deemed such removal necessary,
either on account of infectious disease, or under S. 89 of the Act,
where a dead body is retained in a house so as to endanger the
health of the inmates. During 1893 I did not have occasion to use
this authority, but several times I succeeding in persuading persons
to bury the bodies of those who had died of infectious
disease, without the delay which unfortunately is too much the
custom.
Board and Church Schools.
11. I continued my inspection of Board Schools, begun when
the Diphtheria prevalence commenced. I saw in company with
the chief Sanitary Inspector, Vicarage Road and Orchard Road
Board Schools, and called the attention of the School Board to
certain sanitary defects, some of which have since been remedied.
We also inspected St. Margaret's and All Saints Schools, with
the result of their Sanitary conveniences being much improved;
these were in the former instance in a very bad condition. I also
visited the new schools in connnection with St. Peter's Roman
Catholic Church ; these I found on the whole very satisfactory.