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Mortuary Chapel.
The number of bodies taken to the Mortuary since it
was opened, up to the present time, (July, 1879), is
133, equivalent to about 33 per annum. I would like
to see this boon more highly appreciated by the poorer
classes, for it is very revolting that a dead body should
be allowed to remain in the same room as that occupied
by the living.
Registration.
For the Registration of Births and Deaths, in this
Parish, the Long Acre District and the Charing Cross
District have been merged into one, under the title
of the St. Martin-in-the-Fields Sub-District, Mr. J. F.
Pink is appointed Registrar, who attends daily, with
the exception of Saturday, at 10, Agar Street, Strand,
from 9 to 10 in the morning, and 5 to 6 in the evening.
Sanitary Work.
In the year 1878, 82 notices were served upon
owners or occupiers of property to remedy sanitary
defects. Legal proceedings in one case only were
resorted to, the owner or occupier failing to act upon
the notice served.
The several courts and passages in the Parish have
been lime-wliited from time to time. The pipe-sewers
have been regularly flushed; and those gullies in the
streets which at times emit offensive effluvia, have
also been flushed with carbolic acid and water.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN J. SKEGG,
Medical Officer of Health.
29, Craven Street.