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endanger the health of the inmates 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 the duty of the Relieving Officer to
bury such body at the expense of the Poor Rates, 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.
No. XVII.
JUSTICES' ORDER.
Sanitary Act, 1860, 29 & 30 Vict. cat. 90.
CITY OF LONDON.
London I, the undersigned,
to Wit.
being one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and
for the said City and the Liberties thereof, having
before me a certificate signed by
, a legally qualified medical practitioner,
and dated the day of ,187 ,
do hereby, pursuant to "The Sanitary Act, 1866,"
Section 27, order that the body of
who died on the day of
of a certain infectious disease, called
and which body is now in the house, No.
, in the said City,
and is in such a state as to endanger the health of the
inmates of the same house, shall be forthwith removed
to the Mortuary Building in Golden-lane, being the
proper place provided for the reception of dead bodies
in and for the said City, by the Nuisance Authority
thereof, and I do direct that the said dead body be
buried within 24 hours after such removal.
Given under my hand this day of
,187 , at the
in the said City.
To The Commissioners of Sewers,
Being the Nuisance. Authority for
the City of London, Guildhall.