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THE MORTUARY AND CORONER'S COURT, 1878-9.
Prom the 1st of April, 1878, to the 31st of March, 1879, 566
bodies have been received at the Mortuary, the daily average being
1.28 as against l.32 in the previous year.
311 inquests have been held during the same period, the sum
of £48 15s. 0d. having been paid to the Vestry for the accommodation
afforded by the Coroner's Court.
SANITARY WORK OF THE YEAR, 1878-9.
(Table No. VI.)
This table of our Sanitary work has been prepared in the usual
manner, showing in the upper portion the number and variety of
the inspections, re-inspections, and calls made by the District
Inspectors during the year, and in the second part the amendments
which have been effected.
In addition to these improvements, the three District Inspectors
reported that dust was required to be removed from 1,136 houses,
this number not being included in the removals ordered as the
result of the special work of the Inspector of Dust, which will be
found stated in the note at the bottom of the table.
The disinfections (836), were again far more numerous than in
ordinary years owing to the continuance, during the several months
extending from March to October, 1878, of the small-pox epidemic,
as shown in my last Report, in which I made reference to
the extra labour devolving upon the District Inspectors in
attending to cases of infectious disease, and the impediments which
this special and exceptional work occasions, from the time
it occupies, to the systematic inspection of the houses of the poorer
class, and to the supervision of those general improvements which
are also recorded in this table.
Ry the authority of the Sanitary Committee, carbolic acid was
again used during the summer as in previous years, in watering
some of the streets. McDougall's powder was also used in the
hottest and driest part of the season in the courts, and in connection
with the Sunday morning cleansing of the channels of the Essex,
Caledonian, and Holloway Roads, where these thoroughfares are
used as market-places until late on Saturday night.