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9 broken water service pipes repaired.
22 water supply to closets provided.
26 illegal occupation of kitchens abated.
Factories and Workshops.—These are now being
carefully inspected, as required by the Public Health Act It may
be well to state Mr. Lakeman's definitions in this matter as contained
in his subjoined letter:—
Home Office, Whitehall,
October 2nd, 1892.
Sib,
As requested by your letter of the 28th July, I beg to
inform you that a "Factory" is any place wherein motive
power is used for the manufacture of any article, and a workshop
is a place wherein manual labour only is used.
But a workshop wherein male adults only are employed is
not considered to be in any way subject to the jurisdiction of
the Factory Inspector.
Your obedient servant,
J. B. LAKEMAN.
Mortuary.—The excellent Mortuary still continues to fulfil,
in the main, its most useful purpose. 259 bodies were brought
into it during the year; of these 76 were Holborn Guardians
cases; and 183 were brought from the dwellings of parishioners,
including 11 cases of Zymotic disease, and 75 were for inquest
purposes, upon which 33 post-mortems were made.
In a few instances trouble and annoyance are caused by a defective
state of the law. The regulations of the Vestry require that no body
shall be retained in the mortuary for more than five days. The
Public Health Act empowers the magistrate to make an order for the
removal of a body when in a decomposing state from any dwelling to
the mortuary, and for its burial within an appointed time. But
when a body has been removed to the mortuary and remains there
unburied so as to become very offensive; on application to the
magistrate for an order for its burial, this has beea refused iu two