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Killester, in the county of Dublin; in the burial gTOund in the
demesne of Mitchelstown, in the county of Cork; in the burial
ground in the demesne of Malahide Castle, in the parish of Mala-
hide, in the county of Dublin, subject to certain exceptions and
qualifications; and in the burial ground attached to the parish
church of Killarney, in the parish of Killarney, subject to certain
exceptions.
We have also issued licenses under the 10th section of the
Burial Grounds Act in certain individual cases authorizing, where
the circumstances seemed to warrant it, interments in burial
grounds which had been ordered to be closed. These exceptional
cases occurred in relation to the burial grounds of Whitechurch,
Cruagh, Monkstown, Old Killiney, and Templeogue, in the county
of Dublin; St. Mark's, in the city of Dublin; St. Mary Shandon,
in the borough of Cork; and Killeely, in the county of the city
of Limerick.
Public Health Act.
30. Exceptional cases of neglect and indifference on the part of
local sanitary authorities have created in some quarters an unfa¬
vourable impression as to the shortcomings generally of the law
and its administration, which are not warranted by the facts.
With regard to such cases it may be well to point out that in
a measure now before Parliament it is proposed to give the Local
Grovernment Board for Ireland more power than it now possesses
of providing effectual security for the general adoption of the pro¬
visions of the sanitary law. It must at the same time be observed
that it could not have been reasonably expected that a measure
like the " Public Health (Ireland), Act," would at once work a
complete reform of the sanitaiy conditions througliout the whole
country, as it was obvious that some localities would adopt their
sanitary reforms more readily and with more promptitude than
others, and that a complete general amelioration in these matters
could only be a question of time.*
31. We mentioned with satisfaction in our last Eeport that the
sanitary authorities had for the most part been active in the dis¬
charge of their duties, and that no less than 79 orders fixing the
area of charge for water supply or for sewerage, or both, had been
issued in the course of tlie year, involving upwards of 1,200 town-
lands situate in 62 different unions, a complete and detailed
account thereof being given in the Appendix. We have now to
add that during the succeeding year 89 similar orders have been
issued affecting 2,229 townlancls situate in 60 different unions for
similar purposes, the details of which will be found in the Appen¬
dix to the present Report.!
32. The following is supplementary to a similar table in para¬
graph 33 of our last annual Report:—
* See extracts from Kegistrar-General's reports on the Quarterly Returns of
the Registrars and sanitary officers. Appendix C. II., p. 108.
t Appendix C. iii., p. 114.
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