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Sec. 90 (1) Any sanitary authority may and if required by the County Council shall,
provide and maintain a proper building (otherwise than at a workhouse) for the reception
of dead bodies during the time required to conduct any post-mortem examination ordered
by a coroner or other constituted authority, and may make regulations with respect to the
management of such building.
Replies have been received from five districts stating that regulations are in force under the
first-named section.
Sec. 90 reproduces Sec. 28 of the Sanitary Act of 1866, and under one or other of these
sections a few authorities (as shown in the tabular statement) have made regulations.
In the tabular statement appended the districts mentioned in Schedule C to the Metropolis
Local Management Act, 1855, are not included. Replies have been received, however, which show that
by-laws under Sees. 16 (1), 39 (2) and 50 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, are in force in
the close of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, in the Charterhouse, Furnival's-inn and Staple-inn, in
the Inner Temple and Middle Temple, and in Gray's-inn. By-laws were made by the steward to the
Honourable Society of Lincoln's-inn in August. 1894.
As regards the City, by-laws under sections 16 (1), 39 (2) and 50 are now in force, and by-laws
under section 94 have been submitted to the Local Government Board, but are not yet approved.
About 1,350 tenement houses are on the register.
Shirley F. Murphy,
Medical Officer of Health.