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upon a plan for proposed Mortuary. An enquiry was held by
Dr. Farrar, Local Government Board Inspector, in reference to
obtaining sanction to borrow money for the provision of the Postmortem
accommodation, when evidence was given in support of
the application by your Town Clerk, who produced the various
Resolutions of the Council; also gave particulars respecting the
rateable value, and the amount of loans outstanding by the
Council ; also as to the present unsatisfactory Mortuary accommodation
within the Borough. Your Medical Officer of Health
also gave evidence as to the Census enumeration of the population,
and the estimated present population, showing how rapidly the
population of Greenwich was increasing; also as to the extremely
unsuitable accommodation at present existing in the Borough.
That the lack of suitable accommodation deterred many persons,
who, unfortunately, occupied only one or two rooms, from making
such use of the Mortuary as a place of reception for their dead, as
otherwise might be the case; also as to the number of bodies
dealt with at the Mortuary within recent years; and, further, as to
the number of Inquests and Post-mortems held; evidence was
also given by Mr. Roberts, the Architect employed by the Council
for this work, in reference to the plans and estimated cost of the
building. The site was then inspected by the Inspector, since
which, formal sanction has been granted. The tender for the
erection of the building has been let, and the work of erection is
now in progress. It was reported to your Medical Officer of
Health, by one of the Sanitary Inspectors, that a young child, who
had died from Zymotic Diarrhoea, was lying coffined in a room
occupied both for living and sleeping by two adults and two
children, and had been so occupied for several days. It was
.accordingly found necessary to make application to a Police