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Objections having been made to the abolition of the name of
"Durham Street," the Vestry suggested to the Metropolitan Board to
allow the name to remain, but the Board deemed it inexpedient to
accede to the application.
GODDARD'S RENTS.
Messrs. Hanbury & Co. wrote, offering to take Goddard's Rents on
lease at the expiration, at Lady Day, of the then existing tenancy.
The application was referred to the Works Committee, on whose
recommendation the Vestry asked the annual rent of £100, which
Messrs. Hanbury declined to give.
MORTUARY.
The Guardians, feeling compelled to decline to receive in future
dead bodies into the dead-house at the workhouse, the Vestry decided
in September to use the old engine-house as a temporary Mortuary,
and empowered the Surveyor to do what was necessary to fit the
engine-house for the purpose. In October the Sanitary Committee in
conjunction with Messrs. Paterson, Ward, and Forrest, were deputed
to wait on the Vicar of St. John to ascertain whether he was then
in a position to consent to the vault under the porch of St. John's
Church being used as a Mortuary, and adapted for the purpose in
accordance with plans prepared by the Surveyor. At the interview
with the Vicar he stated he had submitted the plans to the Bishop on
the preceding day, that the Bishop had approved of the plans subject
to a certificate by the medical officer, that the proposed use of the
vault would involve no risk to health, and, subject to a faculty being
obtained. The consideration of the matter was delayed in consequence
of the death of the late Medical Officer of Health; and ultimately after
much consideration, and having regard to strong objections expressed
by some members of the congregation of St. John's, the Vestry on the
23rd of March passed a resolution referring to a Special Committee,
consisting of the Members of the Sanitary and Works' Committees,
to consider and report what steps should be taken, and what arrangements
made, with a view of carrying out the resolution passed in 1872,
to convert the old Watch-house into a Mortuary.