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five shillings for each such removal. Henceforth, this charge will
be defrayed by the Coroner. Provision is made that "where it is
necessary that the body should be cleansed previously to an
inquest" (as not seldom is the case) "and such cleansing is done
by persons other than the relatives or friends of the deceased, the
cost thereof, not exceeding five shillings," will be allowed.
"Payments under the Schedule must in every case be subject to
the discretion of the Coroner, who should only allow so much of
the sums authorised by the Schedule as the circumstances warrant."
The Sanitary Committee conclude their Report on this subject by
recommending, "That Coroners be requested to avoid, wherever
possible, the holding of inquests in public-houses; "and" that
they be informed that the Council will be glad if the system
of employing officers of the Metropolitan Police, in lieu of special
officers, can be extended to all Coroners' Districts in the County
of London." Acting upon my Report, that it was desirable that
some definite arrangement should be made with the Coroner, with
respect to fees payable under the above heads, a conference was
arranged between the Coroner, the Chairman of the Works and
Sanitary Committee, the Vestry Clerk, and myself, at which a
suitable scale of fees was settled.
BROMPTON CEMETERY.
A mild agitation for the closing of this cemetery, not the
first, was set on foot in 1889, and a question was put in the
House of Commons, in April, 1890, viz., Whether the Government
(to whom the cemetery belongs) taking into consideration the
great increase of property and population in the neighbourhood,
had decided to close it, as was proposed by the Government in
1884, and to hand it over, as a disused burial-ground, to the
London County Council, with due regard to the vested interests
of persons interested, and the policy of the intramural Acts ?
In reply, Mr. Jackson stated that it was not necessary on sanitary
grounds to close the cemetery, and as there was a present income
of ,£6000 per annum derived therefrom, he was not prepared to