The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-24 00:00:00

CHURCHYARDS.

The churchyards have been from time to time supervised
by your district inspectors, who report to me that care
appears to be taken by the parochial officers to prevent ex-
posure of human remains (once so common an occurrence)
wherever the ground is excavated for additional inter-
ments; that burials within the churchyards generally
have, since the passing of your first act of Parliament,
been annually decreasing in numbers, and that during the
past year their belief is that a very considerable decrease
over any previous year has taken place.
As the act relating to metropolitan interments passed
during the last session of Parliament (subject to the con-
currence of the City Common Council), has given into the
hands of your honourable court powers enabling you to
provide a place of extramural sepulture for the City of
London, the time when the entire abolition of extramural
sepulture within the limits of your authority shall be ac-
complished may now be said to rest with you ; and as you
have already unanimously concurred in the expediency of
its entire suppression, and adopted a report to the City
Common Council, recommending steps to be taken for the
advancement of that object, and the matter is now under
the careful consideration of the committee to whom it has
been referred, it will be needless to advert to it further.
The SURVEYOR, in alluding to the recent act, relative
to common lodging-houses, anticipates great benefit from
the strict observance of the regulations based upon the
suggestions of the medical officer of health, and states that
a number of houses were inscribed upon the registration
book of lodging-houses at the expiration of the year.

SMOKE CONSUMPTION.
At the commencement of the year a survey was made be
the district inspectors of the furnaces and chimneys w h
emitted opaque smoke in a quantity sogcrsetafi as to cause
cases
annoyance to the neighboirhoods. The most
were ,speedily served with notices, n
similarly treated as from time to timead others have been
they have been ndis-
covered, either by the vigilance of your oficers, or by
complaints of inhabitants ; and, according to the return
made by your clerk, 115 notices of the kind have been
served during the year. I may say generally that I believe
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much good has been effected, but that a very great deal
still [remains to be done. The proprietors tof furnaces
your jurisdiction have in most cases had reco e
apparatus. From
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chanical means, or smoke consuming
received notice to prevent the issue of smoke, and with the
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patentees of smoke-consuming apparatus, and from the
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distrust of the various apparatus which haveur hitherto
submitted to the public - been
, and it is to that distrust
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the notices which
have been served upon them that delay is referable.

NU ISANCES.
The inspectors have, during the year, examined into the
condition of 1,477 houses under the direction of your offi-
cer of health, the houses being mostly those where deaths
have occurred ; they have also examined 558 other pre-
mises upon various complaints, and for other purPo"s•
The total number of premises examined by them, there-
fore, has been 2,035. The owners of the properties upon
notice
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which nuisances have been discovered have had to
remove them. The ins ors concur in stating that
nuisances :discovered by them are not of the aggravated
nature of those of former years.
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