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at the City of London Cemetery, Little ford, under a Faculty granted by
the Consistory Court, which provided that such removal and re-interment
should be carried out under the direction of your Medical Officer of Health.
ST. ETHELBURGA, BISHOPSGATE.
This was a comparatively small undertaking, in which four boxes of bones,
containing the remains of about 80 persons, were exhumed and re-interred at
Ilford.
These remains were disturbed in the course of the erection of a Vestry Hall
on the site of the churchyard.
CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.
In order to give effect to the objects and purposes of the scheme involving
the sale and disposal of the site of Christ's Hospital, the Council of Almoners
was empowered to make arrangements for the removal of any interred bodies
therein.
Section 7 of the Christ's Hospital (London) Act, 1901, provided that—
"It shall be lawful for the Council of Almoners to cause to
"be removed, under the superintendence and to the satisfaction of the
"Medical Officer of Health of the City of London, any human remains
"buried in any part of the site of Christ's Hospital. The remains
"removed shall be enclosed for removal in shells well pitched, and shall
"be re-interred, at the expense of the Council of Almoners, in some
"consecrated burial ground which may lawfully be used for interments."
In accordance with this provision 21 complete bodies in shells, and 10
cases, estimated to contain the bones of 91 persons, were dealt with; six of
the bodies were taken to private cemeteries, and the remainder were re-interred
at the City of London Cemetery, Little Ilford, in the private ground of the
Christ's Hospital Authorities.
ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH, BOTOLPH LANE, EASTCHEAP.
These remains were dealt with under an "Order in Council," following a
scheme prepared by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners under the Union of
Benefices Acts, 1860 and 1898, for effecting the union of the benefice of
St. Mary-at-Hill with St. Andrew Hubbard, and the benefice of St. George,
Botolph Lane, with St. Botolph, Billingsgate.
The exhumation was commenced on the 15th September, 1902, and
completed on the 13th December last. In all, 150 lead coffins, and 71 cases
of bones—estimated to contain the remains of 1,420 bodies—were disinterred
and re-buried at the Necropolis, Woking.