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depend upon the state of the crypt after that removal had been
effected.
After this communication, the Vestry deemed it advisable to take
no further action in opposition to the Home Secretary's request, but
to allow the work to be proceeded with by the Churchwardens, acting
in conjunction with the Overseers, and they accordingly permitted
the Vestry Clerk and Surveyor to assist the Churchwardens and to
receive special remuneration therefor.
On the 26th September the Renter Warden reported to the Vestrv
that the tender of the London Necropolis Company had been accepted
for the removal of the human remains and the Churchwardens and
Overseers had approved a site at Brookwood Cemetery, Woking, for
the re-interment of the remains.
Some correspondence took place with regard to the position of
the Medical Officer of Health, as a statutory officer under the Order
of the Local Government Board required to devote the whole of his
time to the duties of the Vestry, carrying out the duties of supervising
the work of removal, but after an interview by a deputation of
the Overseers with the Assistant Secretary of State and by the
Medical Officer of Health with one of the Assistant Secretaries of the
Local Government Board, the Vestry passed a resolution permitting
the Medical Officer to act in the supervision of the work of removing
the remains from the crypt and to receive a fee as remuneration 1
for the same.
On the 7th November, 1899, it was reported that 1405 bodies hail
been removed, the crypt had been cleared down to the floor level, aud
Dr. Hoffman had visited and inspected the place and decided to
report fully to the Home Office. The Vestry inspected the crypt on
the 11th November.
A letter was subsequently received from the Home Office stating
that no further removals from the crypt need be made provided the
floor was covered with concrete and cement in the manner indicated
in a plan forwarded to the Home Secretary by the Church wardens
and that the crypt proper was cross ventilated, but suggesting that
steps should be taken to ascertain whether there were any vault,
immediately below the lloor of the church, between the crypt and the