The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-13 00:00:00

WATERLOO-ROAD.

" To the return for the Waterloo-road the following
valuable note is appended:—
" Perhaps it may not be irrelevant to state that I
have taken considerable pains, since the commencement
of cholera in my district, to ascertain at what particular
stage of the disease medicine had first been administered,
and I have no hesitation in saying that at least half the
cases I have registered were allowed to proceed un-
checked until the most alarmieg and dangerous symp-
toms had manifested themselves, but lately more cir-
cumspection seems to have been used; nevertheless the
cases are still numerous in which persons seem (from
the painless nature of the attacks) to be unconscious how
highly necessary it is that immediate attention should be
paid to it. My inquiries lead me to concur with the
observations of a brother registrar:—" That the employ-
ers of the poor could do much to render them more alert
to the terrible consequences of neglect or, uncleanliness."

14 GREENWICH.

" F., 35, wife of painter, cholera 30 hours, September
4, Salatation-alley, near the Arsenal gates.—The sister
of this person, and her sister's husband, died of cholera
last week, in London, at Newington-causeway. A son
of Mrs. hall, 18 years of age, has since died. The
mother, who nursed those persons, came on Saturday
last to stay with this individual. In the back yard, near
the dwelling, was an everflowing privy, and near it a
durghole, the drainage running into it."
Iu this week's return, as in previous ones, the absence
of information such as registrars must have the most
extensive and best means of acquiring, is again obsery
able in nearly all the districts where cholera has been most
fatal. Thus, in the districts of Bermondsey, St. George's
Southwark, Newington, and Camberwell, and nearly all
the cases recorded, are given in the shortest form pos-
sible, and the opportunity is lost fur collecting that full
and minute statement of facts the value of which becomes
every day more apparent.

The Board of Health has published the following
notification to churchwardens, overseers, and other
persons, with reference to burial-grounds :
" Gwydyr House, I,‘ bitehall, Sept. 10.
_ . . .

"It having been proved that there is danger to health
and life from emanations arising from human remains in
a state of decomposition ; that such emanations produce
fatal disease and depress the general health of whoever
are exposed to them in ordinary times ; that, even when
the burials have been so deep as to diminish the escape
of surface emanations, injurious effects are traced in the
pollution of springs and wells; and much evidence having
also been received that during the prevalence of the present
epidemic additional injury to the public health has been
incurred by the practice of intramural interments, the
General Board of Health are prepared to adopt measures
for its discontinuance wherever, upon the report of
an inspector, founded on the preliminary examination
required by the 10,11 section of the Nuisances Removal
and Diseases Prevention Act, it shall appear that ' any
burial-ground is in such a state as to be dangerous to
the health of the persons living in the neighbourhood.'
Iu conformity with the terms of the Act, and pro-
ceeding in each case upon the special report of an in-
spector, the Board have already ordered several grave-
yards to be temporarily closed.
" They would, however, urge upon churchwardens,
overseers, and all other persons having charge of grave-
yards, particularly in the metropolis, the great import.
ance of their voluntarily making immediate preparation
for the suspension of intramural interments; such au-
thorities being now by the 10th section of the 'Nuisance
Removal and Diseases Prevention Amendment Act,' em-
powered to discontinue the practice as set forth in the
words of the statute hereto annexed.
" The General Board of Health would recommend
that the arrangements made should in general be strictly
of a temporary nature, in order that all danger may be
avoided of their clashing with those general and perma-
nent measures which it will be the duty of the board to
prepare, at the earliest practicable period, for the sanc-
tion of the Legislature. The board hope that the mea-
sures in contemplation will meet with approval, inasmuch
as they will be framed in the spirit of the following
resoulutions, adopted at a meeting of the parochial
clergy of the metropolis, and sanctioned by the Bishops
of Londo❑ and Winchester:—
" The Committee of the Parochial Clergy, the Very
Rev, the Dean of Manchester in the chair, reported the
following as the result of their inquiries:—
"‘ First, they beg to express their acquiescence in the
opinion now so generally and strongly entertained by the
public, that it is exceedingly desirable that interments
within the metropolis, except in the cases hereinafter
mentioned, sections No. 25 and 26, should be discon-
tinued, and that larger and more convenient burial-
grounds than those at present existing should be substi-
tuted at reasonable distances from the metropolis, pro-
vided such grounds, when established, be parochial
burial-grounds, with a reservation to all parties now
having or hereafter by law to have certain interests in
the ancient churchyards or parochial burial-grounds, of
all the same rights, privileges, and duties now belonging
to them.

" In submitting the above plan the committee beg
to state, that their object throughout has been not
merely to provide for the removal of the evils of the pre-
sent system, and for the preservation of existing
rights, but to suggest the extension of benefits to
the community. Their wish is that every inhabitant
of London, however poor, should have a legal
right to the following privileges on the death of a rela-
tive—namely, an undisturbed grave in the peaceful se-
clusion of a well ordered burial-ground; the full per-
formance of the Church of England service ; the
respectable conveyance of the body to the place of burial,
and whenever the removal of a body from the place of
death may be desired, its care and safe custody in a
house of reception until the time of burial. They wish
these privileges not to be of an eleemosynary character,
but the provision of the Church for the population,
whether rich or poor, to be obtained by every one on
application at the church of his parish, and on the pay-
ment of the lowest charges for which such services can
be rendered.

" By order of the Board,
" H. AUSTIN, Secretary."

CLAUSES IN THE NUISANCES AMENDMENT ACT, HAVING
REFERENCE TO INTERMENTS.
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cause inquiry to be made by a superintending in-
spector, or by such other ways and means as the
General Board of Health, or such Commissioners,
may deem fit to direct, into the state of the burial-
grounds in any part of England or Wales excepted
from the powers of the Public Health Act,
1848, or in any populous city, town, or place in
England or Wales to which for the time being the said
Act has not been applied, or in any populous city, town,
or place in Ireland, and if it appear to the General
Board of Health or the said Commissioners that such
burial-ground is in such a state as to be dangerous to
the health of the persons living in the neighbourhood
thereof, it shall be lawful for the said General Board of
Health in England and Wales, under the seal of the said
board, and under the hands of two or more members
thereof, and the said Commissioners of Health in Ire-
land, under the hands of two or more of them, to issue
such orders as the said Board or Commissioners respec-
tively may think fit for the application of such disin-
fecting substances, and for the adoption of such other
measures of precaution in relation to the premises, as