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bodies need not come into contact, nor run any risk of infection
thereby. The general Mortuary is provided with catacombs for
the reception of twelve bodies, also with an air-tight container
for the reception of any decomposing bodies, and this portion,
again, is provided with a plate-glass window looking into the
viewing corridor. There is also a well-lighted post-mortem room,
provided with two pust-mortem tables and all appurtenances, a
room for the use of the medical men who may be called upon to
carry out their duties in this connection, accommodation for a
small hand ambulance, and the usual offices. The walls of the
building are faced internally with opalite tiling, the floors are of
terrazo paving, the corners and angles are all rounded, hence the
whole of the building can very readily be kept clean. It is well
lighted by electricity, and ventilated by louvres alongside the
lantern lights in the roof.

Notifications under the provisions of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891. There have been notified a
total of 890 cases under the above Act.
Small-pox. Only one case of this disease was notified
throughout the year in a person residing in this Borough. This
was in the St. Nicholas District. The infection was presumably
caught by a visit paid to friends residing in a neighbouring