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Your Committee have also furnished the Mortuary with seats
and other necessary accommodation, and have provided fittings
specially needed for post-mortem examination of bodies.
Your Committee have prepared forms for the Rules and
Regulations of the Mortuary; for the Register Book to be kept
at the Mortuary; the orders to receive the Body (books of
which will be kept at the Vestry Clerk and Medical Officer's
Departments, the Guardians' Offices, and the District Police
Stations); and for the indexed Guard Book for filing such
orders.
Your Committee consider it necessary that a Mortuary
Keeper should be appointed to have the care of the building,
and to be entrusted with the carrying out of the foregoing rules
and regulations. T. Windley, who has been for many years the
Verger of St. George's Church, Camberwell, and resides opposite
to the entrance of the Mortuary, and who, in the opinion of
your Committee, possesses suitable qualifications for the office,
has been temporarily appointed by your Committee, and they
recommend that he be permanently appointed at a salary of
15s. per week.
Your Committee invite the inspection of the building by
the Vestry, and they believe its architectural design, and the
details of its carrying out, will merit their approval.
Your Committee, in conclusion, have now to report that
the Mortuary was formally opened on Tuesday, January 5th,
1886, by the Rev. A. Fisher, who officiated in the absence of
the Rev. S. Smith, M.A., late Vicar of St. George's, who was
prevented by illness from attending. Your Committee regret
his absence on such an occasion, as they feel that acknowledgement
is due to him for his great kindness and assistance in
enabling the Vestry to succesfully carry out the undertaking
on its present site.
All of which is submitted.
G. C. WHITELEY,
Chairman.