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THE MORTUARY AND CORONER'S COURT, 1883.
From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1883, 661 bodies were
received at the Mortuary, the daily average being 1.81.
371 inquests have been held during the same period, the sum of
£56 7s. 6d. having been paid to the Vestry for the accommodation afforded by
the Coroner's Court.
The proportion of inquests to deaths was about 7.22 per cent. for the
whole year.
SANITARY WORK OF THE YEAR, 1883—84.
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, reinspections,
and calls made by the District Inspectors during the year, and in
the lower portion the amendments effected.
In addition, the District Inspectors have also reported the premises from
which they have found removal of dust to be necessary.
By the authority of the Sanitary Committee, carbolic acid was again used
during the summer months 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.
It will be noted in this table that 626 visits have been made to the Bakehouses
in the Parish, the Legislature having during the Parliamentary Session
of 1883, by "The Factory and Workshop Act, 1883," re-transferred their
inspection from Her Majesty's Inspectors of Factories to the Vestries and
District Boards of the Metropolis.
This step will, in my opinion, prove beneficial in every way, but the
transference would have been more readily effected by the re-enactment of
"The Bakehouses Regulation Act of 1863," than by amending "The Factory
and Workshop Act of 1878."