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ST. SEPULCHRE'S SCHOOLS, GILTSPUR STREET.
In the course of some rebuilding operations at Nos. 8 and 9, Giltspur Street,
adjoining St. Sepulchre's Schools, a quantity of human remains were
disturbed.
Upon application to the Home Secretary a license dated 11th February was
issued authorising their re-interment in the City of London Cemetery, Ilford,
under the supervision and to the satisfaction of your Medical Officer.
The Churchwardens of St. Sepulchre subsequently made a formal request
to be allowed to re-inter them on the spot in the burial ground belonging to
the Church, from which at some time they had originally been removed.
This was allowed, as it involved no danger to the public health and avoided
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considerable expense.
The bones were re-laid in the Churchyard, being surrounded and covered
with a sufficient layer of properly made concrete.
FROM THE SITE OF OLD CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.
In April, 1907, during some excavations made on the site of Old Christ's
Hospital for the extension of the General Post Office building, some human
remains were found.
These filled four cases, which were removed and re-interred at the City of
London Cemetery at Ilford with the usual precautions.
In this instance the bones were dealt with under the provisions of
Section 7 of Christ's Hospital (London) Act, 1901, which provided that any
human remains found on any part of the site of Christ's Hospital were to be
removed under the superintendence and to the satisfaction of the Medical
Officer of Health for the City of London.
No. 9, FORE STREET.
In September, 1907, in the course of some excavations required in the
rebuilding of the above premises, which adjoined to the North-east corner of
Cripplegate Churchyard, some human remains were discovered which, when
collected, filled two cases. After communicating with the Home Office and the
Churchwardens of Cripplegate, an arrangement was made for their reinterment
in the Churchyard, and this was duly carried out under my
supervision.