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No. XV.
CITY OF LONDON SEWERS.
Mortuary Chamber, Golden Last.
General Notice.
In accordance with the provisions of the "Sanitary Act, 1868,"
and the " City of London Act, 1848," it is desirable that the Mortuary
Chamber in Golden-lane should be used by the poor and
others of the City of London as a depository for their dead, whenever
the retention of such dead body in a room or house, occupied
by the living, is likely to endanger the health of the inmates
thereof.
To this end the Commissioners of Sewers, who are the sanitary
authority for the City of London, hereby give notice that the said
Mortuary Chamber can at all times be used in the manner specified
in the 27th Section of the Sanitary Act, 1866, that is upon the
transmission of a certificate to the Sanitary Clerk, at the Sewers'
Office, Guildhall, by a legally qualified medical practitioner, stating
that the retention of a dead body, in a room in which persons live
and sleep, is likely to endanger the health of the inmates thereof,*
on receipt of which the Sanitary Clerk will immediately take the
necessary measures for the speedy removal of the dead body to the
Mortuary Chamber.
The following is the clause of the Act above referred to:—
27th Section of the "Sanitary Act, 1866."
"Any nuisance authority may provide a proper place for the reception of
dead bodies, and where any such place has been provided and any dead
body of one who has died of any infectious disease is retained in a room
in which persons live or sleep, or any dead body which is in such a
state as to endanger the health of the inma'es of the same house or
room, is retained in such house or room, any justice may, on a certificate
signed by a legally qualified medical practitioner, order the body
to be removed to such proper place of reception at the cost of the
nuisance authority, and direct the same to be buried within a time to
be limited in such order, and unless the friends or relations of the
deceased undertake to bury the body within the time so limited, and
do bury the same, it shall be duty of the Relieving Officer to bury such a
body at the expense of the poor rate, but any expense so incurred may
be recovered by the Relieving Officer in a summary manner, from any
person legally liable to pay the expenses of such burial."
* Forms of Certifiates may be obtained at the Sewers' Office, Guildhall.