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 'eitramural 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.

ment of the year a survey At the commence
furnaces and chimneys which
the district inspectors of the
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served with no ices, and others have been
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covered,
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made by your clerk, I
t_ have been
complaints of inhabitants acofeotrhdeinkig
kind
the return
effected, but that a very great deal
may say generally that I believe
still !remains to be done. The
,propiietors tof furnaces
served during
within your jurisdiction have in most cases had recourse
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to anthracite or Welsh coal in preference to adopting me-
th those who have
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received notice to prevent the issue of smoke, and with the
patentees of smoke-consuming apparatus, and from the
I am induced to believe
reports of the inspectors to me,
that there is amongst the proprietors of furnaces a great
distrust of the various apparatus which have hitherto been
submitted to the public ; and it is to that distrust more
than to any indisposition to comply with the notices which
have been served upon them that delay is referable.
NUISANCES.
The inspectors have, during the year, examined into the condition of 1,477 houses under the direction of your of& 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 purposes.r
The total number of premises examined by
properties
upone
th-
fore, has been 2,035. The owners of the
which nuisances have been discovered havh
that the
notice to
remove them. The inspectors concur i
nuisances'discovered by them are not onf statingthe aggravated
nature of those of former years.
i T. Surveyor, in his voluminous report, touches upon a

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stateds.g4' y
been,. Ate- 11,
citizens. My estimate of work for the present 'Year:lain-,
verified what I then wrote, and the sewers rate has
ac. `.71
cordingly been reduced one-half. There is still, however,
much work to be performed in the reconstruction of the
exceedingly ancient sewers, of which so many exist within
your jurisdiction, and the adaptation of others not built
with the view to modern acquirements, as well as other
works of general improvement ; but as these require much
care and attention, and can only be shortly proceeded with,
the present rate rill doubtless be sufficient to meet any
further demands upon it, and your honourable court may
at length enjoy the satisfaction of being able to reduce the
rate, knowing at the same time that in so doing you leave
no works undone immediately essential to the health or
comfort of the inhabitants within your jurisdiction.—l
have the honour to remain, your most obedient servant,
The report was ordered to be" WILLIAM IlAYwoon.
printed.

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