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loan was sanctioned for a sum of ^360 to provide
additional accommodation. There will be a room
to serve as a waiting room for relatives or those
having business in connection with funeral arrangements
or inquests, and which will also be used as
a room at the disposal of medical men officially
engaged ; also a room as a store for disinfectants
and appliances therewith, and as a washing and
cleaning room, coal shed and sheds for the housing
of the two disinfecting vans. If at some future
time, as is quite possible, each of the constituent
bodies having access to the Isolation Hospital
should be required to arrange for their own
disinfection, and not depend on its being done as
at present at Tolworth, then, if it should be thought
suitable, space is here available where the necessary
plant could be erected. Tenders for the work
have been accepted. Total number of bodies
received into the mortuary 18; number of postmortem
examinations made 15; number of
Coroner's inquests 21.
I am,
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
Yours obediently,
OWEN COLEMAN, m.d., d.p.h.,
Medical Officer of Health.
March 31st, 1904.
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