| Description | Minutes indexed. The minutes are handwritten and signed by the committee Chairman. The minutes are in the appropriately titled minute volume. The minutes include copies of the quarterly reports of the committee to Council, which comprise mainly tables of monthly totals of interments (with receipts) for consecrated and unconsecrated burial grounds in the borough, account, statements of income and expenditure and details of assets and liabilities and related correspondence. There is also a large amount of correspondence relating burial rights and regulations, as well as litigation surrounding the acquisition and purchase of land for the purposes of providing burial grounds in the borough in minute volume BCC/1/AP/1/1/3. The minutes of 26 September 1870 include a detailed report on the problems caused by the need to shorten the time for interments on Sundays, noting the sanitary issues raised by leaving bodies for up to ten days in the small and badly ventilated houses of Birmingham's poorer districts (see minutes 1905 - 1907 in BCC/1/AP/1/1/3). The minutes of 12 August 1872 and 17 February 1873also contain very detailed reports on damage and decay suffered by religious buildings, out-buildings and burial grounds (with proposed works), and include Anglican, Nonconformist and Roman Catholic churches (see minutes 2147 - 2148 and 2225 - 2226 in BCC/1/AP/1/1/3). |