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cause of death, undertaker's name, date of intended burial,
date of removal of body from Mortuary, and where interred.
From the opening of the Mortuary on the 5th of January,
1886, 105 bodies had been received, 31 post-mortem
examinations made, and 96 inquests held by the Coroner at
a public-house situated opposite the Mortuary.
The Report was received, and the functions of the
Committee handed over to the Sanitary Committee who
have now under their consideration the provision of the
needful Coroner's Court close to the Mortuary, on
unconsecrated ground.
gas lighting of the parish.
In my Report for the year 1881-5 will be found the
names of the members of a Committee appointed by the
Yestry on the 19th November in that year—"to cousidcr the
subject of the Gas Lighting of the Parish with regard to its
possible improvement, and also as to applying the meter
system in the Parish." Several preliminary meetings were
held under the chairmanship of Mr. A. AVatton, the mover of
the resolution, and a gas tester was appointed to test the
supply of gas to the public lamps and to make enquiries, for
the guidance of the Committee, as to the application and
working of the meter system in several of the metropolitan
parishes which had adopted it; but the sittings of the Committee
were suspended for a considerable time owing to the
retirement of Mr. A. Watton as a member of the Yestry.
It was not until after the Yestry election in 1885, that,
partly re-constituted through changes consequent on the
elections, it met again to receive the information which had,
in the meantime, been collected.
The newly-constituted Committee took up the enquiry
from this point, and commenced by ascertaining from the