Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population Of Great Volume 2; Britain Supplementary Report on the Results of Special Inquiry Into the Practice of Interment in Towns

by Edwin Chadwick

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 Excerpt: ...lower than the houses should be at a greater distance. A site, with a slope to the south, is deemed the best, as it will be drier and warmer, and facilitate decomposition. 150. Competent witnesses declare, that by a careful preparation of the ground, and without any appliances that would be otherwise than acceptable to the most fastidious minds, the escape of miasma may be so regulated as to avoid all injury to the health, and springs may be protected from pollution by drainage; and that by "these means the necessity of far distant sites, and the inconve nience and expense of conveyance of the remains, and obstructions to the access of friends to the place of burial, may be avoided. 151. Amongst these means, one for preventing the escape of emanations at the surface by absorbing and purifying them, is 132 Salutary influence of V egctation on Cemeteries. entirely in accordance with the popular feeling. The great body of English poetry, which it has been remarked is more rich on the subject of sepulture than the poetry of any other nation, abounds with reference to the practice of ornamenting graves with _fiowers, shrubs, and trees. A rich vegetation exercises a powerful purifying influence, and where the emanations are moderate, as from single graves, would go far to prevent the escape of any deleterious miasma, It is conceived that the escapes of large quantities of deleterious gasses by the fissuring of the ground would often be in a very great degree prevented by turfing over the surface, or by soiling, that is, by laying vegetable mould of five or six inches in thickness and sowing it_carefully with grasses whose roots spread and mesh together. At the Abney Park Cemetery, where the most successful attention is paid to the vegetation, t...

148 pages, Paperback

Published May 20, 2012

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1800-1890