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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bethnal Green 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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Mortuary, i.e. :—
On Coroner's order —
From the Police —
At the request of relatives 7
The reduction in the number of bodies deposited at
the mortuary is due to the altered practice of the
Coroner who now conducts the inquests in Bethnal
Green cases at Courts in adjoining boroughs and the
bodies in such cases are of course deposited in the
mortuaries attached to these Courts.