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APPENDIX.
Information as to the provision for burial which has been made by local authorities for residents
in the various sanitary districts, as to the cost of interment, and as to
the provision made by the poor law unions for the burial of paupers.
(1.) Under the Burial Acts, parish authorities, namely, the vestries, except in the case of
parishes within the City of London for which the Commissioners of Sewers are the authority,
have the power of determining whether or not a burial ground shall be provided for the use
of the parish. Having resolved to do so, the vestries prior to 1894, appointed a burial board for
the purpose. Under the Local Government Act, 1894, power is given for the transference to
the vestries of the duties and liabilities of the Burial Board, and in several instances in the
county this transference has taken place.
(2.) The provision of places for the burial of the dead is a matter which is intimately connected
with public health administration, and the following account shows the extent to which
the powers conferred by the Burial Acts have been made use of by local authorities.
(3.) The authority for sanitary purposes is not in all cases the same as the vestry, in several
instances two or more vestries being joined for the purpose of sanitary administration, and
forming a district board which is the sanitary authority for the whole district. Taking the
sanitary authority as the unit, it appears that—
(4.) As regards 19 sanitary authorities (including three district boards) within the county,
there are 25 places for burial provided by the vestries for the parishes which are comprised in the
areas under the jurisdiction of these sanitary authorities. Of these, there are—
(a) Situated within the county, 17 burial places.
(b) Situated without the county, 8 burial places.
(a) 1. Hammersmith.
2. Fulham.
3. Hampstead.
4. Lambeth.
5. Camberwell.
6. Lewisham.
7. Plumstead.
„ Forming Wandsworth
8. Wandsworth. sanitary district with
9. Tooting. Clapham, which con-
11.Putney tracts with a private
cemetery.
12. Eltham.
13. Charlton. Lee sanitary district.
14. Lee. )
15. Greenwich. Greenwich sanitary dis-
16. Deptford. trict.
17. Woolwich.
(b). 1. Paddington.
2. Kensington.
3. St. George, Hanover-square.
4. Marylebone.
5. St. Pancras.
6. Islington.
7. Battersea.
8. City of London.
Note.—Battersea has two cemeteries—
(1) In the county, but now filled and only used for re-opening of private graves.
(2) Outside the county.
Putney has two cemeteries—
(1) Only used for the re-opening of private graves.
(2) New cemetery at Kingston Yale.
(5.) As regards 24 sanitary districts, burial places have not been provided by the parishes
which they comprise. They are the following:—
(a) Vestries—
1. Chelsea.
2. Westminster.
3. St. James.
4. Stoke Newington.
5. Hackney.
6. St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
7. Clerkenwell.
8. St. Luke.
9. Shoreditch.
10. Bethnal-green.
11. St. George-in-the-East.
12. Mile-end Old-town.
13. St. George-the-Martyr.
14. Newington.
15. Bermondsey.
16. Rotherhithe.
(b) District Boards—
1. St. Giles.
2. Strand.
3. Holborn.
4. Whitechapel.
5. Limehouse.
6. Poplar.
7. St. Saviour.
8. St. Olave.
(6.) The absence of provision of a burial place by a local authority appears to be a disadvantage
to persons residing in the district, inasmuch as they must bury their dead either in a