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"pleased to learn whether you have been able to adopt the
"suggestion enabling a Vestry or District Board to provide
" them, and for the County Council to advance money for
" the purpose of purchasing land and erecting the necessary
" buildings.
" In this Parish, which contains over 250,000 popula"
tion, it is a public scandal that the Coroner is compelled to
"hold 'his Court in a public house, and the Vestry, who
"have erected a Public Mortuary, are powerless to help
" him.
" The Parish Mortuary is erected in a disused Church"yard,
and owing to a Canon Law against holding any
"secular court on consecrated ground, the Vestry are pre"
vented from using the building for inquests, though a
" special room was built for that purpose.
" A few lines in the Bill might remedy this."
The following reply was received to that letter, on the
21st April, 1890 :—
" I am instructed by the Local Government Board to
"acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 16th instant,
" with reference to the Public Health London (Consolida"
tion) Bill, and to state that the suggestions to which you
" refer will receive consideration with others. The Board
" have not, however, at present, arrived at any conclusion
" with regard to it."
It is believed that the President of the Local Government
Board will introduce this important Bill into Parliament
in the next Session.