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16. No person shall be permitted to remove any body deposited
at the mortuary from a coffin, except by permission in writing of
the medical officer of health or the coroner.
17. Any shell, the property of the undertakers or others, left
at the mortuary for two days after the body it has contained has
been removed, shall be destroyed by the mortuary keeper.
18. On default being made in the removal of the body from
the mortuary on the appointed day, application shall be made by
the mortuary keeper to the relieving officer for its immediate interment,
and a summons shall be applied for against the person or
persons responsible for such default, for the recovery of the costs of
such interment and the mortuary charges.
Post-mortem.
19. Any registered medical practitioner shall be permitted to
make use of the post-mortem room for the performance of a postmortem
examination, subject to any conditions prescribed by the
Borough Council, and the consent of the medical officer of health.
20. No post-mortem examination shall be made without the
consent in writing of the legal representative of the deceased,
except permission be given by the medical officer of health or the
coroner, and such consent shall be produced to the mortuary keeper
before the examination takes place.
21. The mortuary keeper shall not be allowed to interfere or
take part in any post mortem examination, beyond giving the
necessary attendance upon the medical practitioner making the
examination; nor shall the mortuary keeper be present at the
examination, except at the request of such medical practitioner.
22. No part of the body shall be taken away from the place
provided for a post-mortem examination, except upon the authority
of the medical officer of health or the coroner.
23. The body, after examination, shall be left in a decent
condition, and all evidence of the operation, as far as possible, shall
be concealed.
Duties op Mortuary Keeper.
The Committee reported to the Council that they had approved the
following statement of duties of mortuary keeper :—