The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-10-21 00:00:00

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111 E STOURI3Rr.DGE OBSERVER

A STRANGE CEMETERY.

Dr. Thomas Diver, M. li.. writes to'l'he Ti s from
2, Onslow•place, South Kensington 2--" : the
eaciiug of,'Newis from India,' I notic: ' imes
: Frida#ernorning the dollowinp: pa . %• • i Mr.
Welfh lafiras:C.S.,. k.••sistatic; Magistrate,' 7 been
pus. i deli for two raTiths for cawing the exhumation
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r,t.• body cf a.lir. • inin from the banks of the chief
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• _ -4,, cyate -tia .. in iftfOr'l MOO With t.. •re.
v aka th: .. • lig surgeons:-__Miera •.: , s
accuse him of sacrilege. The Madra€NG ernme.
have apologised, and have given the relatives 8 0 ecape .
, for a second burial.' I have been many years in India,
• tenor!: well the 13014 of the native, ai24 tirAir-
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zir alletaaitteirot halegi% ennedveenreyktoneiwmpraonr
thing so monstrous as their being able, without
interferen_,ce to bury a body on the banks of the
-obief-drinring water- tank bta place. "Cali yroin-Sir
tonished at cholera, smallpox, and fever decima-
' ilndia when such things are allowed? It is bad
enough to Fee the natives bathing, washing their
I mouths and theft clothes, anoUleing othar3hings munr.
more disgusting, in and about the tanks from which
' drinking-water is taken, but to be able to bury bctlies
close to drinking water, in a countiy where disease is
so rife, decomposition so rapid, and percolation through
1.)1e, soil so easy, is to scatter disease and death in all
i.dctfontL 'There may be something more to tell, and
' M. Weld may not have acted rightly or wisely, bat it
_,,lip,srsi hiattiiinv tjiat th 4 r4presentittlyef RI jig
Mapsty should halk4o apologize and pay 280 forthi
oonctuct OR sp gffielak who
.endeavourpd apparently by'
his 'acts Wpfedent the spread of diseinse in his district."

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&egg to trilboveutr. S. Priokilate of the In-
'dian Serbi ; writ -to Tht Argo from Black.
arfoowp :-t-`.`iThe dead
.bodies of Brahmins are
nbvlfdd,,,and, t-therefiire) the body whiCh was ea-
Ihihdott iduet law been thaltOf peppn of in! erocPitf.
Cremation is the ,methpfl,adattriaor the d_isat (If
the se: bodies of Biihminfi, and I may-addlhat no
b ver
?"1 burled, unksl
news a too ..I."ffett to-I,urchase fuel to
bum hiaidea4 body. i The ashea,,-..dre.,. of tip. fpneral
nrnusuall-y 'consigned to sofee kindred strea"
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tklt. 4 (141sof sh4ledian Civil gsr I. ) also writes to
e Nmes •••=-Avarelßrahmins ate as Mr. Price
states- but the bodies:of an impprtant religious order—
the SquirtyliPii--asePbuiied;.- ',From the reported regret
'expeentd bY the sect, horn the large 1/02011/14 lid to have
been paid as damages or for new obxquici, it is mot
likely that some:Brahmin of reputed sanctity of the
lanniyasis, a kindred order, was buried where his pre-
decessor in office had been buried, and too close to a
Pond to be in with some rigid sanitary .:Ider,ftorct :the
zealous official point of view. Your Etat aorrespondlnt
took occasion to fall foul of.the habits of tile iiindoos,
but they are a cleatkap e.ther people, theta th'Sir ways
are ricttourif,"l

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