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existing tenancies. The Vestry were reminded of this
agreement, and had produced to them the plans and
elevations approved and initialled by His Grace in connection
with the above concession. As the lease held
by the Vestry will expire in 1892, and as a change, caused
by the death of the lessor, had taken place since enquiries
were last made in reference to the purchase of the lessor's
interest, the Vestry ordered immediate steps to be taken
with a view to securing the superior leaseholder's interest
in the land, and gave instructions to the Joint Works and
Sanitary Committee to carry out the negotiations. The
Committee lost no time in instructing the Solicitor to
communicate with the lessees, and at Lady-day the matter
was still in the Solicitor's hands.
Thirty-one bodies were received at the mortuary during
the year, 4 to await interment by reason of insufficient
accommodation in apartments or dwelling-houses, at the
dictation of sanitary precaution, and 27 for the purpose of
inquests by the coroner. Of these 27 dead bodies, 5 were
found in the Thames, 2 in the public streets, and 1 in a
public conveyance.
By the 49th Vic., cap. 20 (known as "Col. Hughes's Act")
the Vestry are empowered to pay the sum of five shillings
to any constable bringing a body found in the Thames to
the Mortuary for the purpose of inquest and parochial
interment.
Cow Houses
and
Slaughter
Houses.
By the operation or the Local Government
Act of 1888, the granting of licenses in respect
of cow and slaughter-houses became transferred
to the London County Council, the jurisdiction of the Justices
in Special Sessions being superseded by the Council as
the licensing authority. Partly in regard to the newlyconstituted
licensing authority having its own inspectors,
and partly in view of the improvement in the inspection
and registration of the places by the Vestry's officers, the