| A letter was received
from the Rotherham Union asking for permission for a pauper from
Brinsworth to be buried in the Cemetery. This was refused because
the Board pointed out that Brinsworth refused to unite with the
township as part of Rotherham’s burial board when approached
in 1854. Inhabitants from Brinsworth therefore had no right of burial
in the ground.
Letter from Mr Bland, Inspector of Nuisance, as to the state
of the burial ground. The question of poor drainage had been reported
in the Rotherham and Masbrough Advertiser, some of the ground
it seemed lay in inches of deep water. The Board expressed concern
and appointed Mr Hartley to undertake a survey of the ground.
Mr Hartley’s survey found that some bodies in the public
section of the ground were buried only 2 ft below the ground
Following the earlier complaints about the state of the burial
ground it was decided that no interment in a public grave should
be less then 4ft from the surface. It was decided to order new
trestles for the support of coffins and the secretary would visit
Sheffield Cemetery to inspect theirs.
It was agreed that £100 should be made on the Overseers
of the Poor to meet some of the expenses of drainage. In addition
£3 should be spent in trying to burn the clay thrown out
of the drains in the cemetery as an experiment for repairing the
road in the grounds.
Mr Potts, the Burial Board’s solicitor approach the Guardian
of the Rotherham Poor Law Union for a contribution, pursuant to
the Act of Parliament, for the Boards undertaking to bury the
dead bodies of every person dying in the workhouse and a contribution
for leaving buried the dead bodies of every person who died in
such workhouse since the formation of the Burial Board.
Letter from Masbrough Holmes Coal Co enquiring whether the Burial
Board would sell the coal lying under the cemetery. Secretary
wrote Archbishop as ascertain whether they have the power to sell
the minerals.
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