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Reception Houses for the Dead.
Power to provide Premises for the Reception of the Dead previously to Interment.
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LXXXI. And for the Purpose of preventing the manifold Evils occasioned by the Retention of the Dead in the Dwellings of the Poor, be it enacted, That the Local Board of Health may, if they shall think fit, provide, fit up, and make Bye Laws with respect to the Management and Charges for the Use of Rooms or Premises in which Corpses may be received and decently and carefully kept previously to Interment; and the said Local Board may, upon proper Application, and subject to such Regulations and at such Rates and Charges as shall be prescribed by any such Bye Laws, make all necessary Arrangements for the decent and economical Interment of any Corpse which may have been received into any Rooms or Premises so provided in pursuance of this Enactment.
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