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The uncertified deaths in St. Pancras have been in 1876,
26 ; 1877, 20 ; 1878, 28; 1879, 11; and in 1880, 11.
The Vestry wisely supported the memorial, and it may be
hoped that an early alteration in the law will give a better protection
to life than the existing law affords, and will ensure
proper enquiry by a skilled person into all deaths concerning
which such certificate cannot be produced.
OPEN SPACES.
The Kyrle Society have recently brought before the Vestry
a scheme for laying ont as a garden the disused burial
grounds of St. George-the-Martyr and St. George, Bloomsbury,
situated at the back of the Foundling Hospital.
The Vestry have already expressed their approval of this
plan, and it only remains for me, as their Medical Officer, to
hope that nothing will interfere with its thorough fulfilment.
There are few better means of improving the health of the
inhabitants of the crowded neighbourhood in which these
grounds are placed than that of opening them for the
recreation of the people.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
SHIRLEY F. MURPHY.
To the Vestry of St. Pancras.