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parents they saw the necessity of retention. In each case the
bodies were taken direct to the cemetery on the day of the funeral.
Two bodies were removed from the infectious disease hospital to
the mortuary chamber to await burial.
A case of diphtheria was notified, and as usual the premises were
at once visited, but on arriving at the house we found the child was
dead and lying on a side table. The parents were a very dirty class
of people. A shell was at once obtained, and we removed the body
in the Council's ambulance to the mortuary and arranged for the
burial.
I received information that a child was lying in a house unburied.
On visiting, I found a still born child had been lying in a room for
eleven days. The mother was in bed and the father was in prison.
This child was at once removed to the mortuary and arrangements
made for the burial, forthwith.
My attention was called to a child having been dead several days,
and on going to the house I found the parents were very respectable
and had been endeavouring to get money enough to bury the child
decently, but unfortunately the father was out of work and the undertaker
refused to bury unless the money was forthcoming. The
body was rapidly decomposing, and was removed to the mortuary
and arrangements made for burial.
I was informed that a child had been dead several days. I
visited the house and found the body of the child lying on a side
table in a living and sleeping room, and had been there several days
The mother seemed to trouble little about it, casually observing
" she could not afford to bury the body." This body was at once
removed to the mortuary and arrangements made for burial.
Three other bodies were deposited at the mortuary by undertakers
to await burial owing to no accommodation for retention of bodies
in the houses.