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UNSOUND FOOD.
The following articles of food were surrendered by the
owners as unfit for human food and subsequently destroyed :—
1 barrel Dogfish (14 stone); 2 trunks Whiting; 12 bags
Greens; 2 boxes Smoked Codlings ; 1 basket Tomatoes ;
16 boxes Tomatoes; 1 trunk Haddocks.
CORONER'S COURT AND MORTUARY.
The Mortuary was used for the reception of 133 bodies,
removed from the following places :—
From houses in the Borough 77
„ „ outside the Borough 8
„ Lewisham Infirmary 38
„ Bermondsey Workhouse 5
„ Other places 10
The portion of the Mortuary reserved for infectious
cases was occupied by four bodies.
Inquests were held upon 125 of the bodies, and a
post-mortem examination was made in 79 cases.