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No. XIV.
CITY OF LONDON.
Duties of the Keeper of the Mortuary Boom and Disinfecting
Chambers in Golden Lane.
Prepared by the Medical Officer of Health, by direction of the
Sanitary Committee.
1. The keeper of the Mortuary Room and Disinfecting Chambers
shall act under the direction of the Sanitary Committee,
through the Medical Officer of Health and the Inspector of
Nuisances ; and he shall also attend to the instructions of
the principal Clerk in matters relating to the duties of his
office.
2. He shall reside in the apartments provided for him by the
mission, and shall not absent himself from the premises unless
required to attend the Meeting of the Commission or Sanitary
Committee at Guildhall; or without leave from the
Sanitary Committee.
3. He shall receive and take charge of all the dead bodies sent to
the Mortuary by order of the Justice, or by direction of the
Medical Officer of Health, and he shall keep them in proper
and decent custody until they are removed from the Mortuary.
(Sanitary Act, 1866, Sect. 27. City Sewers' Act,
1848, Sect. 8'J, 90 )
4. He shall enter in a book, kept for the purpose, all particulars
concerning each of the dead bodies sent to the Mortuary,
and received therein; stating when it was received; the
name and address of the person from whom it was received ;
in what manner it was brought to the Mortuary ; the name
sex, and age of the deceased, and the cause of death; the
number of the house and the name of the street from which
dead body was removed; by whose order it was removed
and the date of the order; the time specified in the order
for the burial of the body; the date of its removal from the