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"(b) That a copy of this Resolution be sent to the London BoroughCouncils
asking whether they will support and are prepared to join
in this deputation.
"(c) That copies of the above Resolution be sent to all Members of Parliament
representing Metropolitan Constituencies, to the Corporation
of the City of London, the London County Council, and to the
Corporations, Cities and Boroughs which have replied to the circular
letter sent by this Conference and asked to use their influence with
the Prime Minister to receive a Deputation."
The Council supported the resolutions of the conference, and
Alderman Lindsey and Councillor Kingston were appointed the
Council's representatives to join the proposed deputation. The
deputation has not yet been received.
Proposed
Mortuary and
Coroner's
Court.
58. The provision of the proposed Mortuary for Wandsworth,
referred to on page 49 of the last Report,
has received further consideration. In the result,
the plans of the Mortuary and Coroners' Court,
which it was proposed to erect on part of the land acquired for
the cemetery in Magdalen Road, were not proceeded with, and the
question of the provision of a new Mortuary was allowed to stand
over pending the report of the Departmental Committee appointed
by the Government to enquire into the law relating to Coroners
and Coroners' Inquests, and into the practice in Coroners' Courts.
When the Committee's report was issued the subject was again
considered, and the Borough Engineer was instructed to prepare
a plan for a Mortuary only on the site acquired by the Council
some years since in Ram Square, at the rear of the Wandsworth
Town Hall. The plan was approved by the Public Health Committee,
but in view of the introduction into Parliament of the
Coroners' Law and Death Certification Amendment Bill, which
provides means for obtaining an alteration of Coroners' districts
and amends the law in other respects, it was decided to adjourn
the consideration of the matter.
Notification
of Births.
59. The Council considered the subject of carrying out the
provisions of the Notification of Births Act, 1907.
The Act was adopted by the majority of the London
Borough Councils, and the Local Government Board, on the suggestion
of the London County Council, made an order declaring
the Act in force in those Boroughs (including Wandsworth) where
it had not already been adopted. The Council thereupon decided