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the poor themselves to make use of the Mortuary for
their own benefit, and of their own free choice, I
have advised that it should be done through the
undertaker employed in the case, who will make
applications to the Sanitary Clerk at the Sewer's
Office, and fill up a form (No. XIX.) in which he
agrees to send the body in a proper coffin, and to
bury it within a specified time.
Already these places have been of the greatest
service to the poor, especially during the recent
epidemic of small-pox; for from tho month of February
of last year until the end of September (only
seven months) there have been 3,350 articles of
clothing and bedding disinfected and returned to
the owners. They comprised 216 mattresses, 242
beds, 142 bolsters, 253 sheets, 375 blankets, 440
quilts,. 434 pillows, 108 carpets, 486 articles of
clothing, and 654 sundries. Besides which there
have been 9 dead bodies received into the Mortuary,
seven of which were cases of small-pox.
Inspectors of Meat and Markets.
The Markets, Cow-houses, and Slaughter-houses
of the City have been duly inspected, and the
officers have condemned 132,388 lbs. or nearly 60
tons of meat as unfit for human food. This is much