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MORTUARY.
The actual completion of the Mortuary, is satisfactory
considering the difficulties that for a time
impeded the work. Sad as is the necessity for
such an institution at all, the conversion of the old
buildings to their present purpose has proved to be
most useful; utility,and not appearance,governed the
execution of the work, and above all the materials
that have been used are such as cannot retain
effluvia, or in other words infection. The Vestry
are aware of the usefulness of the structure and the
easy and thorough method of cleansing that is
adopted.
Altogether this mortuary may be considered as
having succeeded, and however distinct from the
original purpose of the building which it has followed,
may now be considered as permanently
established.
That a building of some kind, and of some importance
existed at that spot—in fact a great part
still exists,—lends a kind of interest to the last
alteration. The history of the previous alteration,
could it be gathered, would be out of place here,
but that the site of the room now appropriated as a
Mortuary, has, or has had, a history, that would be