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Cause the body to be removed therefrom for the purpose of interment,
within a period of five days from the date of death.
4. Every person for the time being employed in depositing a body
in the Mortuary, or in removing a body therefrom, shall, while so
employed, conduct himself in all respects with decency and propriety.
5. Every person who has been admitted for the purpose of viewing
a body which has been deposited in the Mortuary, shall, while on the
premises, conduct himself with decency and propriety.
6. No person shall remove from the Mortuary a Shell or Coffin in
which a body has been received into the Mortuary, except for the
burial of the body contained therein, or except with the written permission
of the Medical Officer of Health, and after such disinfection
of the said Shell or Coffin as the Medical Officer of Health may deem
expedient.
Penalties.
7. Every person who shall offend against any of the foregoing
Bye-laws, shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty of five
pounds, and in the case of a continuing offence to a further penalty
of forty shillings for each day after written notice of the offence from
the Sanitary Authority.
Provided, nevertheless, that the justices or court before whom any
complaint may be made or any proceedings may be taken in respect
of any such offence, may, if they think fit, adjudge the payment as a
penalty of any sum less than the full amount of the penalty imposed
by this Bye-law.
The Seal of the Vestry of the Parish of St. Luke,
Middlesex, in the Administrative County of
London, affixed by Order, this 25th day of
October, 1895.
(Signed) M. MANNS, Churchwarden.
G. W. PRESTON, Clerk of the Vestry.
Allowed by the Local Government Board this
seventeenth day of December, 1895.
(Signed) HENEY CHAPLIN, President.
HUGH OWEN, Secretary.
In order to meet the continued increase of work in the Public
Health Department, the Vestry during the past year appointed
a Disinfecter and general Assistant to the Sanitary Inspectors,
which appointment has had the effect of considerably relieving
the Inspectors of many minor matters of detail, much, however,
remains to be done if the Vestry desires the Acts relating to