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REMOVAL OF HUMAN REMAINS.
During 1903 there were three cases in which human remains were
disinterred in the City, under the supervision of your Medical Officer of
Health.
It is estimated that the remains of about 518 persons were so dealt with at
the undermentioned places:—
Old Bridewell Burial Ground, (58 Bodies removed. Under Licence from the Home
Dorset Street. Secretary, under 20 and 21
Vic., cap. 81, sec. 25.
Abchurch Lane 200 „ „ Ditto.
Corner of Liverpool Street and 250 „ „ Ditto.
Blomfield Street.
Total 518 Bodies removed.
In 1902, 4,051 bodies from five places were similarly dealt with in the
City.
OLD BRIDEWELL BURIAL GROUND, DORSET STREET.
In February, 1903, the Home Secretary granted a Licence in the usual
terms for the removal and re-interment of human remains discovered during
the progress of lowering a piece of ground in Dorset Street, Salisbury
Square, and four cases, estimated to contain the remains of 68 bodies, were
disinterred and re-buried at the City of London Cemetery, under the superintendence
of your Medical Officer of Health.
It should be mentioned that in the Summer of 1892, 15 cases of bones and
15 coffins from the same spot had been similarly dealt with by the late
Medical Officer of Health.
On the 11th May, 1903, a Bill promoted in the House of Lords by Earl
De la Warr, to remove the restrictions of the Disused Burial Grounds Act,
1884, as amended by the Open Spaces Act, 1887, in order to permit this
piece of ground to be built upon, was rejected in the House of Commons on
the second reading.
ABCHURCH LANE.
A quantity of human remains having been discovered in April, 1903, in
the course of some building operations at some premises in Abchurch Lane,
adjoining the Churchyard of St. Nicholas Acons, the matter was reported to
the Home Secretary, who granted a Licence for their exhumation and removal
to the City of London Cemetery at Ilford, and 13 cases of bones, estimated to
contain the remains of 200 persons, were duly removed and reinterred at Ilford
Cemetery, in accordance with the terms of the Licence.