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i r»n the 27th January last, visited In
The vaults under St. Mary's Churcl, were ^ Mcdic8, Officer of H. nltl, >
R. D. Grainger, Esq., the Government Inspect ,( ^ (hc favm,rilb|e report of
Reports for February and March, 0f the vaults, the Vestry made the
the Medical Ofncer of Health, a Grainger, viz :—
following resolution which was forwarded * c
• • this Vestrv that the vaults ot t ho parish
" That it is the unanimous*>P™«°f ^ ^^ ^ |1(.:.UI.: tlmt it
church arc well kept, quite pure, . recommendation, and very inexpedient to
would be useless to adopt Mi. < g M,tHnir olf the communication with the
make any alteration whatever ; except as oi cut tag reportthe
body of the church by erecting a brick wallI; and thatan^( V..
Medical Officer of Health be forwarded with this rcsolul
A conference was subsequently held at the church with Mr. < .raingor. who ultimately
stated he must adhere to his opinion that the coflins in the »adt bo
covered over with earth, and the vaults bricked up, and that I.,- ah. inld report aoeordingly
to the Board of Health. And in May last, the following Order in I ouncil was
received by the Churchwardens.
" At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 13th day of May, s 1
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Whereas by an Act, passed in the session of Parliament held ii t: tw. ntieth
and twenty-first years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled "An Aim I > Vnn nd the
Burial Acts," it is amongst other things, enacted, that it shall law! il l' i Her
Majesty, upon the representation of one of Her Majesty's principal Si-.ti taries of
State, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, from time to time t«»«>i ler such acts
to be done by, or under the directions of, the Churchwardens, or such otln r p i .us as
may have the care of any vaults or places of burial, for preventing them fmni becoming
or continuing dangerous or injurious to the public health; and tha inch order
in Council shall be published in the "London Gazette," and that >ucli ( huichwardens
or other persons shall do, or cause to be done, all acts ordered as aforesaid and tinexpenses
incurred in and about the doing thereof, shall be paid out of the poor-rates
of the parish; provided always, that no such representation should be m; de until ten
days previous notice ot the intention to make such representation should have been
given to the Churchwardens or other persons, or one of the Churchwardens or other
persons having the eare of the vaults or places of burial to which the representation
And whereas the Right Honourable Thomas Sotheron Estcourt one of Her
Majesty s principal Secretaries of State, after ten days' previous To ' ofZ
on to make such representation had been duly riven" to th« fuJI. i ?n~
persons haying the care of the vaults under the several churches ^7*1 i °'i °
after mentioned, has made a representation station- tl.-.c h . f chapels herein-
the purpose of preventing the said vaults from becoming or Ztlin^Ta"glrous t