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Proposed New
Mortuary and
Post-mortem
Room.
On February 26th, Mr. Arnold Royle, C.B., an
Inspector of the Local Government Board, held an
inquiry at the Town Hall, as to the application of the
Corporation for sanction to a loan of £2,050 for the
purchase of Eton Lodge as a site for a mortuary and
post-mortem room. This loan was granted. In May, a sub-committee,
consisting of the chairman (Councillor Wadd), and Councillors
Billett and Heasler, together with the Medical Officer of
Health and the Borough Surveyor visited the mortuaries of the City
of London and Battersea. The officials above mentioned alsovisited
other mortuaries, which have been erected in recent years,
preparatory to designing plans for the Eton Lodge site. In
September, plans and estimate were presented to the Committee,
who approved of them and recommended them to the Council for
adoption. These were adopted at the meeting of the Council in
October, and an application was made to the Local Government
Board for a loan of £1,600, which, after due public enquiry, was
granted in December.
Small-pox
Hospital
Accommodation
for the
County of
Surrey.
The Medical Officer of Health attended the County
Conference on the above matter, held at Kingston in
February. A communication was received from the
Sanitary Committee of the Surrey County Council in
July, enclosing a draft scheme for the provision of
Small-pox Hospital accommodation for the County,
which that Committee had framed in pursuance of the
request of the Conference. Under this scheme the cost of the
purchase of land and structural expenses would be paid for out of
the County Fund, but the scheme also provides that Richmond
shall be recouped to the extent of its contribution, as the Corporation
have already, in conjunction with the Heston and Isleworth District
Council, established a Small-pox Hospital. The Health Committee,
therefore, took no action in the matter of the proposed scheme.
Sewerage of the Borough.
Treatment of Sewage and
Disposal of House and
Trade Refuse.
These were fully described in last
year's Annual Report. The sewer in
George Street was being relaid at the
latter part of the year.