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Opening of St. Mary's Church-yard.
A Committee, of which Mr. Greatorex is Chairman, was
appointed in April, reported that they consider a Public Mortuary
a necessary acquisition to this Parish, and that the most appropriate
site exists at the North End of the Burial Ground,
proposed to be opened to the Public.
That the keys of the Public Mortuary, or of the present
dead house, and of the Burial Ground, should be kept
exclusively by a man in charge of the Burial Ground, whose
duties would require him to be always on the spot, and he
should be required to live contiguous thereto. The Committee
are of opinion that in order to render this improvement
readily accessible to all parts of the Parish, a thoroughfare
should be made into Cuthbert Street, Hall Park, from Manor
Place, by taking down two houses at the end of Manor Place.
The following Publications and Papers in relation to Public
Health have been received during the last Quarter :—
First Report of the Royal Sanitary Commission, up to August, 1869.
Justina's Letter in Reply to Miss Garrett's Defence of the Contagious Diseases
Act ; from the Pall Mall Gazette—1870
Prostitution ; Governmental Experiments in controlling it; from the Westminster
Review : by John Chapman, m.d. &c.
Contagious Diseases Act ; That this Act be extended to the Civil Population :
by W. Acton, m.r.c.s. &c ;
The Parks, open spaces and Thoroughfares of London : by A. Mackenzie ;
Suggestions for a National Return, &c. of Sickness : James Lewis, Registrar
General's Office ;
Journal of the American Social Science Association—1869, No 1 No. 2, 1870 ;
Science for the People : a Mem. on means for promoting Practical Knowledge
amongst the Working Classes, and for promoting their Physical, Technical and Social
Improvement : by Thomas Twining, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society of
Arts—1870.
London Fever Hospital Report, 1868—1869.
St. Mary's Hospital, Report for 1869. Registrar General's Returns—Weekly.
Hospital Expenditure in London and the Provinces ; Analysis of the working
-expenses of forty-six Hospitals for 1868, by Joseph G. Wilkinson, Esq., Secretary of
St. Mary's Hospital.
Quarterly Report of Mr. Liddle, Medical Officer of Health for Whitecliapel.
General Hospitals, their Uses and Abuses, with Suggestions for a remedy. By
J. G. Wilkinson, Esq.
Third Report of the Operations of the Contagious Diseases Act, with Appendix,
&c. 1870.