Report to the General Board of Health on the state of the burial grounds in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme / by William Lee, Superintending Inspector.

  • William Lee
Date:
1851
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Credit: Report to the General Board of Health on the state of the burial grounds in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme / by William Lee, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (11 and 12 Viet., cap. 63 ) Report to the General Board of Health on the State of the Burial- f/roiinds in the Borough of Newcastle-undkr-Lyme. By William Lee, Superintending Inspector. My Lords and Gentlemen, Whitehall, 2Wi May, 1851. The Report which I have the honour of presenting is based on a communication, of which the following is a copy :— “ Newcastle-under-Lyme, Local Board of Health, '‘'‘(Clerk's Department), 2\st April, 1851. “ Gentlemen, “ I AM instructed to inform you that this Board, at a meeting held on the l7th instant to consider the present state of the grave-yards within their jurisdiction, agreed on the propriety of fortliwith closing the same, and resolved that an application be made to your Board for a Superintending Inspector to be sent down for the purpose of examining into the same, and reporting thereon. Should any further official notice be required, )ou will be good enough to let me hear. “ I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, (Signed) Thomas Fenton, Clerk to the said Board. “ The General Board of Health)' Sfc. djc. This being such a representation as was required by the 82nd section of the Public Health Act, you were pleased to direct that 1 should make an inquiry and report, as to I. Whether any burial-ground within the district is in such a state as to be dangerous to the health of persons living in the neighbourhood thereof. II. Whether any church or other place of public worship within the district is dangerous to the health of persons fre- quenting the same, by reason of the surcharged state of the vaults or graves within the walls or underneath the same. HI. Whether sufficient means of interment exist within a convenient distance from such burial-ground, church, or place of public worshij). In pursuance of such directions I gave notice to the following effect:— H
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