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10,600 to 7,806. These figures show the decline in the
epidemics of scarlet fever and diphtheria during the year.
Unsound Food. — Articles of flesh, fish, and fruit, have from
time to time been brought to the Vestry Hall and condemned
as unfit for food. The inspectors have also visited the streets
late on Saturday nights in order to prevent the sale of stale
and unwholesome food.
Mortuary.—65 bodies were received during the year, the
number of post-mortem examinations upon these being 22;
18 bodies were brought in by the police, either the result of
accidents or being found dead. The Coroner orders the
removal of bodies for the purpose of inquest in many cases;
very few bodies were deposited at the request of relatives of
the deceased and no infectious bodies were received.
Bye-laws as to houses let in loJgirgs or occupied by
members of more than one family.—A circular letter was
addressed by the Local Government Board to the Sanitary
Authorities in 1893, pointing out that the powers
conferred by the 94th Section of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, differed in some respects from those
exercisable under Section 35* of the Sanitary Act, 1866,
and Section 47* of the Sanitary Law Amendment Act,
1874 (under which the regulations then in force in this
Parish were made), inasmuch as Section 94 of the new Act
"no longer provides that such matters as the enforcement
of privy accommodation, the paving of premises, the notices
to be given of infectious diseases, the cleansing of cisterns,
&c., &c., shall be dealt with by regulations applicable to
houses let in lodgings. These matters can be otherwise
* Repealed by Public Health (London) Act, 1891.