BURIAL GROUNDS.
  REPORT OF THE BOROUGH ENGINEER 
  TO THE
  HEALTH COMMITTEE.
AT A MEETING OF THE HEALTH COMMITTEE, HELD ON THURSDAY, THE 1ST DAY OF AUGUST, 1878

PURSUANT to a Resolution of the Health Committee,
  "That the Borough Engineer report as to the Burial Grounds in the Borough which have not  been ordered to be wholly, or partly, closed, with such particulars as will enable the Health Committee to consider the advisability of recommending the Council to apply for an Order in Council to close the same,"
the Engineer begs to report that he has obtained all the information in his power with reference to the Burial Grounds in Liverpool. On the accompanying place, Nos 1784 and 1785, are shown in pink the areas at present known to be occupied; the portions tinted blue are those which are known as "half used;" with respect to many of the portions untinted, the Engineer has been unable to obtain trustworthy information.
     All the detailed information which the Engineer has been enabled to obtain is given in the following notes.
ST MARY'S CEMETERY, WALTON ROAD.
PLAN NO 1784.
     In this Cemetery seven vaults have been built, but not yet used. Parts of the Cemetery are, it appears, half used; that is to say, that in those parts one body only has been interred in each grave space. The bodies are said to have been buried about four feet deep. The portions of the ground fully used are tinted pink on the plan, and the portions half used are tinted blue.
JEWS, CEMETERY, DEANE ROAD
PLAN NO 1784.
     In this Cemetery there are no vaults. The portions of the ground tinted pink on the plan are full, and the parts tinted yellow belong to individuals, but have not been used.
     A single interment only in each grave is allowed in this Cemetery.
NECROPOLIS CEMETERY.
PLAN NO 1784.
     In this Cemetery twenty-five vaults have been built, but not yet used. The ground tinted pink on the plan is full, and the portion tinted blue has been half used; that is to say, each alternate grave only is full, or partly used.
(1) ST JAMES'S CEMETERY.
(2) HOLY TRINITY CHURCHYARD, ST ANNE STREET.
(3) ST ANNE'S RC CHURCHYARD, OVERBURY STREET.
     The Engineer has not been able to obtain any information respecting these Burial Grounds.

ST GEORGE'S CHURCHYARD, HEYWORTH STREET.
PLAN NO 1785.
     All the vaults in this Churchyard, except one, are full, or partly full. The portions of the ground tinted pink on the plan has been fully used, and although there is no record of the portion not tinted having been opened it cannot positively be stated that it has not been used.

ST THOMAS'S CHURCHYARD, PARK LANE.
PLAN NO 1785.
     In this Churchyard all the vaults are used. The portion of the ground tinted pink on the plan has been fully used, and although there is no record of the portion not tinted having been opened it cannot positively be stated that it has not been used.

ANCIENT CHAPEL OF TOXTETH PARK.
PLAN NO 1785.
     In the Burial Ground belonging to this Chapel there are four vaults not yet used. the portion of the ground tinted green was allotted for poor persons, but it is not now used.

CHRIST CHURCHYARD, HUNTER STREET.
     The Engineer has been unable to obtain any information with respect to this Churchyard.

ST MICHAEL'S CHURCHYARD, PITT STREET.
PLAN NO 1785.
     All the Vaults in this Churchyard have been used. The portion of the ground tinted pink on this plan has been used, and the portion tinted blue - which is enclosed by a wall - was in 1827, when cholera was rife, set apart for persons who died of that disease. It was subsequently ordered to be closed for fifty years, and this time has now expired. It appears that about 200 bodies were interred in this ground during the continuance of the cholera.

ST JAMES' CHURCHYARD.

PLAN NO 1785.
     In this Churchyard there are no vaults unused, and all the available ground (tinted pink on the plan) has been fully used.

WESLEYAN CHAPEL, STANHOPE STREET.

PLAN NO 1785.
   In the Burial Ground attached to this Chapel there are no vaults unused, and interments have taken place in the portions of the ground tinted pink on the plan.

UNITARIAN CHAPEL, RENSHAW STREET.
   The Engineer has not been able to obtain any information respecting the Burial Ground belonging to this Chapel.

ST MARY, EDGE HILL.

PLAN NO 1785.
     In this Churchyard there are no vaults unused. The portions of ground in which interments have taken place are tinted pink on the plan.

ST PHILIP'S CHURCHYARD, HARDMAN STREET.

PLAN NO 1785.
     In this Churchyard there are no vaults unused. The portions of ground tinted pink on the plan have been used.

ST ANTHONY'S RC CHURCHYARD, SCOTLAND ROAD.

PLAN NO 1785.
     In this Churchyard there are two vaults unused and unsold, and the Burial Ground tinted pink on the plan is fully used. The power to inter in this Burial Ground ceased about two years ago on an Order of the Privy Council, but no interments have taken place for several years.
                                                                           (Signed)                                                GEORGE F DEACON
1st August, 1878.
NOTE. - The Plans referred to in this Report will be exhibited on the Walls of the Council Chamber.