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EXHUMATION AND REINTERMENT OF BODIES.
City of London Cemetery.—During the year the bodies of six persons buried at the City
of London Cemetery at Ilford have been exhumed and subsequently re-interred in the same
Cemetery. In accordance with the terms of the licences issued by the Home Secretary in
respect of these cases, the work of removal and re-interment was carried out in the early
morning under the supervision of your Medical Officer of Health.
CITY MORTUARY.
Bodies Received—Post-Mortems and Inquests :—
Bodies received at the Mortuary to await burial 178
Post-Mortem examinations made 81
Inquests held on bodies 169
Inquests held on fires 1

Disinfection—Trade.—In accordance with the requirements of the South African
Government, the disinfection of second-hand clothing, prior to export to that country, has
been carried on as usual.
The following table gives the details of the work of disinfection carried out at the Disinfection
Station during the year in connection with the export trade:—
Number of Number of articles Fees received
Certificates issued. disinfected. by the Corporation.
556 221,957 £777
Disinfection—Infectious Diseases:—
Articles disinfected after cases of infectious disease 5,080
Public Vehicles—Electric Ambulance 4
Police Litter 1
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897:—
Number of verminous persons bathed 40
Cleansing of School Children:—
Total number of children cleansed 1,008
Preservation of Bodies of Unknown Dead.—The De Rechter apparatus for the preservation
of the dead, installed at the City Mortuary, in March, 1909, was fully described in the
Annual Report of that year. It has proved of considerable assistance in connection with
the identification of persons found drowned in the River Thames. During the year, six
bodies were placed in the apparatus, and of these five were subsequently identified.
Fire Inquests.—Dr. F. J. Waldo, J.P., Coroner for the City of London and Southwark,
has kindly furnished me with the following list of places in the City which were the subject
of Fire Inquests held by him during 1927:—
INQUESTS HELD UNDER THE CITY OF LONDON FIRE INQUESTS ACT, 1888.
Date of Inquest. Premises Burnt.
3rd, 11th and 13th May, 1927 5 and 6, Well Court.
In addition to the above, the City Coroner personally inquired into 170 " non-fatal"
City fires reported to him during the year.
DISINFECTANTS.
The disinfectants and other chemicals in use in the Public Health Department and in
other branches of the Corporation's service, have, as in the past, been supplied under a contract
prepared by your Medical Officer of Health.
They are used for deodorising and denaturising unsound meat, disinfecting public
conveniences, streets and roadways, premises after infectious diseases, etc.
Special attention was given to the thoroughfares in the vicinity of the Billingsgate and
Smithfield Markets, the former of which presents certain difficulties in the matter of deodorisation
in the summer months.
Very few complaints were, however, received of offensive odours necessarily associated
with the fish trade.