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We have always found the occupants of the Canal Boats ready
and willing to accede to any request or suggestion, which we have felt
it our duty to make in view of cleanliness and good health.
REMOVAL AND RE-INTERMENT OF HUMAN
REMAINS.
On September 15th it was reported to me by Mr. Ward, the
Works Manager of the building works then going on in
Bayer Street, Golden Lane, that in the course of excavations
that morning he had come across a large number of human
remains. On receipt of this report I visited the site, and found
a considerable layer of dried human bones. Subsequently I
reported the matter to the Home Office, at the same time
applying for the usual license for removal of the human remains
under the Burial Act, 1857, Section 25. The Home Office
instructed that the matter should be left in my hands in the ordinary
way, and that the removal should be effected with due care and
attention to decency, the remains to be taken to some burial
ground where burials may legally take place and be therein
re-interred.
License for the Removal of Human Remains.
20 and 21 Vic., Cap. 8r, s. 25.
In virtue of the power vested in me by the 25th Section of the Burial
Act, 1857 (20 and 21 Vic., cap. 81), I hereby grant License for the removal
of the human remains disturbed in connection with the excavations in
Bayer Street, Golden Lane, London, E.C., on the following conditions:—
(1) That the removal be effected with due care and attention to
decency.
(2) That the remains be removed to some burial ground where
burials may legally take place and be therein re-interred.
This License simply exempts from the penalties which would be
incurred if the removal took place without a License ; it does not in
any way alter civil rights. It does not, therefore, confer the right to
bury the remains in any place where such right does not already exist.