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84 BURIAL-GROUNDS.
sary disturbance of the soil should be allowed ; nor
any attempts at levelling or the like, except under
the direct sanction of your Honourable Court.
Another point in connexion with these burialgrounds,
to which I may here advert (though I
must recur to it hereafter) is, that while great advantage
may be expected from the discontinuance
of their former uses, if their several areas be left
open and without building, so as to subserve the
ventilation of their neighbourhood, all that advantage
would be lost, and a heavier evil inflicted on
the neighbourhood than that of which it purports
to be relieved, if these spaces were at any time to
be covered with houses; and I trust it may be found
within the province of your Honourable Court to
obtain authority for preventing any encroachment
of this nature on the limited breathing-spaces of
the City.
E. Habitations and Social Condition of the Poor.
In my last Report, under its fifth and sixth heads,
I particularly solicited the attention of your Honourable
Court to certain circumstances connected
with the dwellings and habits of the poor, which
(though they then lay apparently out of your jurisdiction,
as defined by the Act of Parliament) yet