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Thorne states that "an increasing number of Boards of
Guardians have, more or less, completely abstained from
enforcing compliance with the law as to vaccination, pending
the issue of the report of the Commission "which has yet to
be issued.
Coroner's Court and Mortuary.
Number of articles disinfected from Guards'Hospital
Quarters 8,35
Number of articles disinfected from United Parishes 11,805
Number of rooms disinfected 370
Number of families removed to the Vestry's Reception
Rooms, Horseferry-road, during the disinfection
of their dwellings 139
Number of bodies removed to Mortuary 156
Number of Inquests held at the Coroner's Court 119
A special report was made to the Vestry by Dr. Dupre and
myself in December with regard to the best disinfectants to
be used for various purposes in the United Parishes.
It will be remembered that owing to communications from
the Lieutenant-Colonel and the Surgeon of the 2nd Life Guards,
dated February 15th, 1895, asking the Vestry to offer facilities
for disinfection of articles of clothing, bedding, &c., from the
barracks and army hospitals within the Parish, the Vestry
undertook to disinfect all infected articles from the barracks
and hospitals in question free of charge.
The Mortuary Sub-Committee have also given permission to
the staff of the Grosvenor hospital to use the mortuary for
making post-mortem examinations free of expense until the
hospital mortuary is built, provided they conform to the
rules and regulations laid down by that Sub-Committee.
Alleged Overcrowding in Peabody-buildings James-
street.
Owing to the above statement, the Sanitary Committee
ordered a thorough inspection of the above buildings to be
made, and a report was sent to them on February 13th, 1895.
It was found that in no single instance was there any overcrowding,
even in the bedrooms, and in the majority of the
tenements there was excellent space accommodation.
The total number of occupants was found to be 551, which
counted as 465 adults. There are 359 living rooms and one
board room, and it was ascertained that there were less than
1.3 persons (as adults) per room.