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St Mary (Islington) 1890

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St. Mary ]

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and of the time when it shall please Her Majesty to order the
same to be taken into consideration by the Privy Council shall be
published in the London Gazette, and shall be affixed on the doors
of the Churches or Chapels of the Parishes in which any Burial Grounds
or places of burial affected by such representation shall be situate, or on
some other conspicuous places within the part or parts of the Metropolis
affected by such representation One Calendar Month, or where any
Order made under "The Nuisances Eemoval and Diseases Prevention
Act, 1848," directing the provisions of that Act for the prevention of
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases to be put in force, is in
force within such part or parts, then Seven Days at least before such
representation is so considered, provided always that no such representation
shall be made in relation to the Burial Ground of any Parish
until ten days' previous notice of the intention to make such
representation shall have been given to the Incumbent and Vestry
Clerk of such Parish.
And whereas after giving to the Incumbent and Vestry
Clerk of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington, ten days' previous notice of
his intention to make such representation, a representation was made
by the Right Honorable Viscount Palmerston, one of Her Majesty's
Principal Secretaries of State, stating that for the protection of the
public health, burials in the grounds attached to the Parish Church of
the Parish of St. Mary, Islington, commonly called "The old and new
groun is," should be discontinued, and that burials should be discontinued
in the ground attached to the Chapel-of-Ease, in the Holloway
Road in the said Parish, and commonly called the " Chapel-of-Ease
Burial Ground,' subject to the following exception and qualification,
that is to say, that burials shall be permitted for the next two years in
that part of the said ground which has not yet been used, and the
right of interment, with proper precautions, in private vaults in the
said ground, shall be reserved.
&nfcf tofjcvcas Her Majesty in Council was pleased on the
7th day of February last to give notice of such representation and
to order that the same be taken into consideration by a Committee
of the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council on
Tuesday, the 15th day of March last, and such notice has been
published in the London Gazette, and copies thereof have been affixed