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mortuary for the reccption of
bodies
are
on which Coroner's inquests held. Up to the present time....
these bodies have been taken
frequently
in
an
advanced stage.
of decomposition, to the dead house
at the Civil Hospital intended
only
for the autopsy of patients dying
in that institution. The
consequence
has been that the whole of the... Hospital buildings have been : occasionally pervaded by a most intolerable stench proceeding from bodies found on the hill side or
floating
floating
in the harbour that had been
deceased for four or five days. The nuisance and the danger to the health of the inmates of the Hospital have been repeatedly represented to the Government dining the last few years and towards the end of 1880 the Surveyor General was directed by Governor Hennessy to prepare at onse the necessary plans and estimates for a publie mortuary
at a distance from the Hospital, but those orders he
out as
he
was
unable to
carry
failed
to obtain
any -
instruction.
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