§ 25. Colonel DAYasked the Minister of Health whether if his request to the Privy Council for an Order in Council to the effect that burials be discontinued forthwith in the churchyard of the parish church of St. Nicholas, Tooting Graveney, in the metropolitan borough of Wandsworth, has been granted?
§ Sir K. WOODThe notice required by Section 2 of the Burial Act, 1852, of the representation which my right hon. Friend has made for an Order in Council and of the time when the representation will be considered by the Privy Council, has been published and will expire on the 8th August.
§ Colonel DAYHave any interments taken place in this graveyard since the hon. Gentleman's letter to the authorities on 27th May?
§ Sir K. WOODThat is an entirely different matter from the subject of the question, which merely deals with the Order in Council.
§ Colonel DAYYes, but the Ministry wrote to those authorities saying they were applying for an Order in Council, and that in the meantime there were to be no interments. Can he say whether any have taken place?
§ Sir K. WOODThat may very well be so, but it has nothing to do with the question on the Paper.