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1. The hours of work shall be from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., with
intervals for the various meals.
2. He shall act under the orders of the Public Health and
Housing Committee through the Medical Officer of Health. He
shall be responsible for the proper carrying out of the mortuary
regulations and for all arrangements connected with the reception,
the care, and removal of the dead.
3. He shall strip, wash, cleanse, and lay out all bodies
requiring such attention, and shall affix to each coffin a card
bearing the name and age of the deceased person.
4. He shall not receive a gratuity of any kind from any
person or persons whatever.
5. He must be civil, obliging and attentive to the friends and
relatives of deceased persons under all circumstances.
6. When notice has been given to him, either by the medical
practitioner about to make a post-mortem examination or by the
coroner's constable that such is to be made, he shall cause the
body to be placed upon the table in readiness for the examination,
and when that has been completed he shall see that the body is
either replaced in the coffin or placed in a shell and taken back to
the mortuary so as to be ready for burial. He shall also see that
the table and all utensils and appliances are thoroughly cleansed.
7. He shall not be allowed to take part or to interfere in any
way in the post-mortem examinations, but shall simply give such
attendance as is necessary upon the medical practitioners.
8. He will be held responsible for the proper care and condition
of all instruments and apparatus belonging to the postmortem
room.
9. He shall keep the mortuary, post-mortem room, together
with all offices, in a scrupulously clean state, and shall so ventilate
and purify the place as to remove all smells from whatever cause
they may arise. He shall attend to the wants of the coroner or
his officer, and shall to the utmost of his power preserve good order
and quietude during the sittings of the court.
10. He shall keep'such books and forms as the Committee
shall from time to time prescribe, and shall, when ordered by the