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Mortuary

Extract from an Inquest 1877:

The Coroner: I must state the desirability of erecting a mortuary for this parish; as a corpse in the advanced state of decomposition as the deceased, which the jury has seen, shut up in a house with the inhabitants, is injurious to their health, and also of those next door. A mortuary would entail little expense to the parish.



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