[92] The passages here referred to form a separate section of the [First Annual Report]; and therefore need not be reprinted in this part of the present volume.—J. S., 1854.
NOTE.
On considering the above Report, the Improvement Committee of the Commissioners (to whom the subject had been specially referred) at once resolved to report to the General Court that, in their ‘judgment, steps should be taken for closing the several burial-places within the City;’ and at the same time they desired that the Officer of Health would prepare for them his opinion on those ulterior arrangements which such closure might render necessary.
The following Report was written accordingly.
INTRODUCTORY REPORT
SUGGESTING THE
OUTLINE OF A SCHEME
FOR
EXTRAMURAL INTERMENT.
TO THE IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE
OF THE
Hon. the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London.
Gentlemen,
Under the several clauses of the Metropolitan Burials Act, and under certain clauses of the City Sewers Act 1848, the Commissioners of Sewers, acting as a Burial-Board for the City of London, will be subject to the following responsibilities—viz.: