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2. That in each Sanitary District a registered Medical Practitioner should
he appointed as Public Medical Certifier of the cause of death of cases in
which a certificate from a Medical Practitioner in attendance is not forthcoming.
3. That a Medical Practitioner in attendance should be required before
giving a certificate of death to personally inspect the body, but if on the
ground of distance, or for other sufficient reason, he is unable to make this
inspection himself, he should obtain and attach to the certificate of the
cause of death a certificate signed by two persons, neighbours of the deceased,
verifying the fact of death.
4. That Medical Practitioners should be required to send certificates of
death to the Registrar instead of handing them to the representatives of the
deceased.
5. That a form of certificate of death should be prescribed, and that in
giving a certificate Medical Practitioners should be required to use such
form.
6. That it should be made a penal offence to bury or otherwise dispose
of a body, except in time of an epidemic, without an order from the Registrar
stating the place and mode of disposal, which order, after it has been
acted upon, should be returned to the Registrar who issued it.
7. That it should be made an offence to retain a dead body unburied, or
otherwise legally disposed of, beyond a period not exceeding eight days,
except by permission of a magistrate.
8. That the practice of burial in pits or common graves should be discontinued.
9. That still-births which have reached the stage of development of seven
months should be registered upon the certificate of a registered Medical
Practitioner, and that it should not be permitted to bury or otherwise
dispose of the still-birth until an order for burial has been issued by the
Registrar.
Deaths in Public Institutions.
(Within the District.)
I. The Workhouse, Endell Street.
At the Census 1891, the total number of inmates,
including Officers, was:—
314 males
325 females
(539 persons.