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opportunity for the Council to have them made
healthy for the workers, and so constructed that
the conditions under which bread, &c., is made
are clean and wholesome.
The chief difficulties arise in providing
suitable ventilation and lighting, and the
prevention of dampness and dust.
This very much needed building is at last Mortuary,
completed, nearly furnished, and will shortly be
available for use.
In my Report for 1892, now nearly ten years
ago, I drew attention to the necessity for a
mortuary owing to the growth of the district, and
to the distance of that in use at Kingston, which
in its turn necessitated the holding of inquests
there and occasioned great inconvenience and loss
of time to medical men, jurymen, relatives and
witnesses. Year-by-year since then I have
pressed for this, and possibly it would have been
taken in hand earlier but for the difficulty of
finding a site sufficiently central and fairly free
from objection. At last, however in 1900, after
the present land had been acquired by the Council,
plans were drawn up and submitted to the Council
and Local Government Board for approval.
Eventually after many vicissitudes the present
erection has resulted, and it will be found to be a
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