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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Shoreditch 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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PUBLIC MORTUARY, 1936.
Number of bodies deposited from—
St. Leonard's Hospital 23
L.C.C. Infectious Disease Hospitals 2
Undertakers 158
Other sources 4
Total number of bodies deposited 187
Number of post-mortem examinations performed 137
In my report for 1934 reference was made to the condition of the Public Mortuary.
Although certain of the structural features of the building were discussed during the
year under review, and a fan was installed, no action has so far been taken with a view
to the provision of a new mortuary.