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injurious to the public health, an order should be made for the adoption of the measures
hereinafter set forth.
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by, and with the advice of her Privy Council, is
pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that the Churchwardens or such other persons
as may have the care of the vaults under the undermentioned churches and
chapels respectively, do adopt, or cause to be adopted, the following measures in respect
of such vaults, viz:-
(Here follow orders upon several other parishes.)
SAINT MARY, ROTHERHITHE.
1. That the coffins in the public vaults beneath the parish church of Saint Mary,
Rotherhithe, be covered with fresh earth and concrete, and that the existing entrance
be bricked up.
2. That the works be effected under the superintendence of the Medical Officer
of Health of the district, and that McDougall's powder, chlorine, or other disinfectants,
be used whenever necessary.
(Signed) Wm. L. Bathurst.
The Vestry have petitioned the House of Commons praying that the standing
orders of the House may be altered so that the promoters of bills for Railways, Canals,
Docks, or other public works in any parish in the Metropolis, may be required to deposit
copies of the plans thereof with the Vestry Clerk of every parish affected by such
bill.
The following special resolution relating to the management of the business of
the Vestry, has been made during the past year.
3rd August, 1858.—"That in all cases where drainage works are wholly carried
out by the applicants themselves, a charge of One Shilling be made for the attendance
of the Clerk of the Works, to see that they are properly carried out."
APPENDIX (No 1).
TO THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS,
THE MEMORIAL OF THE VESTRY OF ROTHERHITHE.
Sheweth,—That the low level Sewer running along Paradise-row, and the Deptford
Lower-road into the Earl Sewer, has been until the month of August last under
the direction and superintendence of this Vestry.
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