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any windows within a horizontal distance of 20 feet. The internal
diameter of shaft ventilators should be at least. 4 inches.
Very few have yet been erected, owing no doubt to the difficulty
of obtaining suitable positions.
6. When ventilator shafts do exist it is often proved that they
are improperly jointed, allowing the escape of sewer gas below
windows.
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Cemetery and Churchyard.
7. I have inspected the Cemetery in Wickham Lane and
found it well conducted and the regulations properly carried out.
8. I wish the same could be said of the Churchyard. It would
occupy too much space to tell the whole story of the ineffectual
struggle to prevent the scandalous misuse of the Churchyard
which still continues. I will only say that among other means
taken to this end a public inquiry was held at the Old Church,
by Dr. Hoffman, Her Majesty's Inspector of Burial Grounds.
The evidence given by the Clerk, the Chief Sanitary Inspector,
and myself convinced Dr. Hoffmann that there had been a persistent
and flagrant disregard of the old regulations, and that the
Churchyard was three times as full as it ought to be. It was
understood by those present that Dr. Hoffman was in favour of
forbidding any more interments except those of relatives, but
when the new regulations came down they were found not to
differ from the old ones except in certain details as to notices
being given. And so a public scandal and condition dangerous
to health continues; patronised apparently by the Home Office.