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Two lads, who had caused damage to cemetery, were
brought before the magistrates at the Lambeth Police Court,
and fined two shillings and sixpence each.
The Board during the year granted an increase of wages
of three shillings per week to the foreman gravedigger.
Upon the retirement of Mr. Samuel Smith from the
chairmanship of the Board, the following resolution was
unanimously passed: "That the Board desires to record its
warm thanks to Mr. Samuel Smith, its respected chairman,
for the able and efficient manner in which he has discharged
the duties of his office during the past year and also for his
urbane and courteous conduct to the members of the Board,
and expresses its sincere regret that the information it has
received, that he is about to leave the Parish, may terminate
his connection with the Board.
There have been during the year 3,892 interments.
The number of private graves and vaults which have been
sold is 201.
An abstract of the interments is appended hereto.
Since the date of this Report the Board sustained a
severe loss by the death, on May 12th, 1893, of Mr.
George William Marsden the Clerk to the Board. The
Parish of Camberwell owes chiefly to the painstaking labours
of Mr. Marsden the possession of the site of the present
Cemetery, and the benefit this has conferred upon the
people of Camberwell is testified by the fact that nearly
100,000 interments have taken place at the Cemetery since
the opening in 1856. Mr. Marsden performed his difficult
and onerous labours with a sympathy and kindness that
endeared him to all. He is buried in the Cemetery.