34 Public Health Act.
Limavady, Gorey, Carrick-on-Shannon, Celbridge, Mitch elstowil, Bawnboy, Cashel, Kells, Ballymahon, Strabane, Mohill, Newcastle, Trim, Letterkenny, Olclcastle, Callan, Omagh, Granard, Dunman-way, Naas, Bandon, Monaghan, Banbridge, Castlecomer, Castlerea, Rathkeale, Larue, Donegal, Rathdown, Nenagh, Abbeyleix, and South Dublin ; and the towns of Bnnis and Ennibkillen.
30.
Orders have been made and gazetted, prohibiting further interments in the burial ground of Artane, in the parish^ of Artanc, in the county of Dublin, and subject to certain exception in the burial ground of Abbotstown, in the parish of CastMcnock, in the county of Dublin, and in the burial ground of Monkstowu, in the parish of Monkstown, in the county of Dublin.
We have also issued licences under the 10th section of the Burial Grounds Act, in certain individual cases, authorizing, where the circum¬ stances seemed to warrant it, interments in burial grounds which had been ordered to be closed.
These exceptional casos applied to the burial grounds of Crnagh, Whitechurch, and Monkstown, in the county of Dublin, the burial ground attached to the Church of St.
Mark's, in the city of Dublin, the burial ground attached to the Chapel of Ease, in the city of Londonderry, the burial ground of Killaconenagh, in the county of Cork, and the northern burial ground attached to the Parish Church of St.
Anne, Shandon, in the city of Cork.
Public Health Act.
31.
In paragraphs 32 to 40 of our last Annual Report the pro¬ gress of the sanitary arrangements under the Public Health (Ire¬ land) Act, 1874, was referred to.
We place in the Appendix to this Report the conclusion of the correspondence with the Board of Guardians of Waterford Union, in which resistance to the Sanitary Orders was protracted to so late a period as 1st Decem¬ ber, in the year 1875, when the Guardians submitted to the law rather than incur the risk of the legal proceedings about to be taken against them to enforce it.*
The payment of the sanitary salaries is nowhere now resisted, and the expenditure on this head in the year ended 29th Septem¬ ber, 1875, in both classes of Sanitary Districts, viz.,
the Urban and Rural, was £24,758, in aid of which £12,172 has already been recouped by the Treasury in accordance with the provisions of the 10th section of the Act.
During the same period the Sanitary Authorities have, for the most part, been discharging their duties satisfactorily, and with great benefit to the population situate within their respective districts, the Rural Authorities alone having expended on Sanitary purposes, apart from salaries, in the course of the year, £10,490 for supply of water, improvement of the sewerage, and for the removal of nuisances.
32.
The cost of the latter operations when not recovered from the parties proceeded against, has been charged in accordance with the statute as General expenses; but in Rural Sanitai y
* Appendix, C.
Ill, p 02.
