Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St. Mary ]
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on the doors of the Parish Church of St. Mary, Islington, and of
the Chapel-of-Ease in the Holloway Road, in the said Parish, or
on some conspicuous place within the part or parts of the Metropolis
affected by such representation, one Calendar Month at the least
before the said 15th day of March last.
floto therefore Her Majesty by and with the advice of
Her Privy Council is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered
that burials in the grounds attached to the Parish Church of
St. Mary, Islington, commonly called "The Old and New Grounds,"
be discontinued from and after the 21st day of this instant April,
and that Burials be discontinued in the Grounds attached to the
Chapel-of-Ease in the Holloway Road, and commonly called "The
Chapel-of-Ease Burial Ground," subject to the following exception
and qualification, that is to say, that burials be permitted for the
next two years from and after the date of this Order in that part of
the said ground which has not yet been used, and that the right of
interment, with proper precautions in private vaults in the said ground,
be reserved.
WM. L. BATHURST.
APPENDIX E.
COPY OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE REV. DANIEL WILSON,
VICAR, AND THE VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ST.
MARY, ISLINGTON, FOR THE CONVERSION OF THE
PARISH CHURCHYARD AS AN OPEN SPACE, PURSUANT
TO THE OPEN SPACES ACT, 1881.
^gVCCWCUt made and entered into the twenty-first day of
March One thousand eight hundred and eighty-four between the
Revd. Daniel Wilson of No. 9 Barnsbury Park in the Parish of St.
Mary Islington in the County of Middlesex Prebendary of the
Cathedral Church of St. Paul and Rural Dean and Vicar of the said
Parish of Islington of the one part and the Vestry of the said Parish
constituted under and pursuant to an Act passed in the 18th and
19th years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria intituled
"An Act for the better Local Management of the Metropolis " of
the other part.