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Letters were received from the Royal Hospital for Children and
Women (Waterloo Bridge Road), St. Thomas Hospital (Albert
Embankment), and the General Lying-in Hospital (York Road)
supporting the proposed scheme of a Municipal Milk Depot for
Lambeth.
Special Reports dealing with the subject of the proposed
Milk Depot (presented to the Council) will be found in the
Appendix (pp. 54-61).
MORTUARIES AND CORONER'S COURTS.
The total number of bodies received at the two Borough
Mortuaries (High Street and Wanless Road) during 1903 was
437, as compared with 443 during 1902, and an annual average
for the old Parish of Lambeth for 5 years (1896-1900) of 450.
Of the 437 bodies, 318 were received at High Street and 119 at
Wanless Road.
51 bodies were brought in by the Police (42 to High Street
and 9 to Wanless Road), and the rest by undertakers or private
persons.
The Coroner's Court sat 48 times at Wanless Road, 128 times
at High Street.
Wanless Road Mortuary alone is provided with a separate
room for bodies dead from infectious disease, but during 1903
no infectious bodies were received there.
For comparison, details are given in tabular form of the work
carried out by the late Vestry of Lambeth in connection with the
Wanless Road and High Street Mortuaries during the five years
(1896-1900). Taking an average, it will be seen that the total
number of bodies received during 1902 in connection with the
Borough is 7 less than the yearly average (450) received by the
late Vestry during the preceding 5 years.
The number of post-mortems conducted for the Borough
during 1903 is 250, as compared with 253, 281, 275, 285 and