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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
City of Westminster 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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(2) That a register should be kept showing the date of death,
and the length of time the body remained on the premises. The
register to be open to inspection of the Sanitary Authority, or,
alternatively, that the undertaker should notify the Sanitary
Authority at once on the reception of each body.
In 1905 the City Council drew the attention of undertakers and
others to the fact that the Council had provided special mortuaries in
various parts of the City for the reception of dead bodies. The practice
appears to be decreasing, as several undertakers state that they do not
now get paid for this service, as was at one time the custom.