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8.—Any bakehouse in such a state as to be on sanitary
grounds unfit for use or occupation as a bakehouse, may
be closed upon the order of a Court of Summary Jurisdiction,
or the Court may order improvements, and the
occupier in either case will be, in addition, liable to fines.
PUBLIC MORTUARY.
The determination of the Vestry to provide for the Parish a
Public Mortuary will undoubtedly confer a great boon upon
their parishioners. The subject has been so often discussed
that I have little to add to what I have already said, but inasmuch
as my own opportunity for advising the Vestry in this
matter is now at an end, I would desire to re-iterate here the
recommendations which were embodied in a report I addressed,
under instructions, to the joint Committee of the Parliamentary
and General Purposes and Sanitary Committees.
" I would wish, in the first instance, to point out that the Vestry
propose to erect on the site which has been selected, buildings
which are to serve two distinct purposes : one set being for the
reception of the dead, and the other for the holding of
Inquests.
These two purposes, although of a different character, have certain
relations to each other, and it is necessary that the buildings
required for one should be in convenient proximity to those
required for the other.
It is very necessary that every effort should be made to
ensure that the buildings intended for Mortuary purposes should
be of a character which should sufficiently indicate their object
as a temporary resting place for the dead.
I think this is necessary for two reasons. First, because unless the
friends of the deceased are assured that due respect will be paid
to the remains, they will be unwilling to use the Mortuary to the
extent which for health reasons it is desirable they should use it;
and secondly, because it is most important to encourage among
all classes a proper sense of the sanctity of the dead.
The buildings should therefore be architecturally of an ecclesiastical
character, and should, I think, be sufficiently separated from
the buildings devoted to other purposes.
They should consist of two separate Mortuaries, one for persons who
have died of infectious diseases, the other for persons who have
died from non-infectious maladies.
Each Mortuary should have an impervious floor and the inner wall
should be built with tiled bricks; and each should be furnished