Report on a general scheme of extramural sepulture for country towns / General Board of Health.

Date:
1851
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    REPORT on a GENERAL SCHEME of EXTRA- MURAL SEPULTURE for COUNTRY TOWNS. May it please your Majesty, We, the General Board of Health, having, in compliance with the statute (12 & 13 Vict., cap. 3), laid before Parliament a scheme of Extramural Interment for the Metropolis, noAV proceed to report on the legis- lative enactments which appear to us to be required to extend to country towns powers and provisions analo- gous to those of the Metropolitan Interment Act. The presentation of our Report on the state of the Metropolitan Burial Grounds, and the scheme of in- terment which we proposed for the removal of the evils affecting the large population of London, caused numerous applications to be made to us for the relief of country towns; and representations were made to us by our Superintending Inspectors to the efFe^ct that the inhabitants of tlie towns which they visited with a view to tlie application of the Public Health Act were com- monly and very earnestly desirous that a general Legis- lative measure should he prepared for the prevention of intramural interment. Though in our Ibrmer Report we confined our attention principally to the state of the metropolitan burial grounds, and of the vaults of the metropolitan cliurchcs, yet we took occasion to show, from evidence vvdiicli had been laid before us, the condition of the burial-grounds and vaults in several country towns. From tlie description of the burial-grounds of Hertford, Tamiton, ?»Ianchcstcr, Liverpool, and Sheffield, as well as of numerous towns in Wales, and some in Scotland,