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the certificate of a duly qualified medical practitioner
(See Form No. XVI. of Appendix), to the effect that
the dead body of one who has died of an infectious
disease is retained in a room in which persons live
and sloop, or that a dead body is in such a state as
to endanger the health of the inmates of the room.
This certificate is to be transmitted to the Sanitary
Clerk, who will thereupon immediately fill up a
form (No. XVII. of the Appendix), and take it to
tho Justice Room for the order of the Justice to
remove tho dead body from the room in question.
The Sanitary Clerk will then send an order to tho
Contracting Undertaker of tho Commission to
removo tho body to tho Mortuary, where it will bo
received by tho Kooper and kept in proper and
decent custody. Tho Sanitary Clerk will also send
a printed notico to tho Relieving Officer requesting
him to bury the body at tho expense of tho Poor
Rate within tho time specified in the Justices order.
I have prepared a statement of tho method of these
proceedings for the guidance of tho Sanitary Clerk
and others (see No. XVI11. in tho Appendix).
If, however, tho removal of the body is to bo
effected under tho provisions of the 90th section of
tho City of London Sowers' Act, 1848, it must bo
done through the agency of tho Medical Officer of
Health for tho City; and with the view of enabling