The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-25 00:00:00

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-" If, however, we assume that *r tho'iast aj
of the corpses and attendants will be conveyed igir'74l.4 ti
then it will be necessary to provide—first, a
\specially adapted and 4clusively eppropriat
'object; and secondly, reception-houses placed
Went distances along the banks of the river. Th
Taliiitis—necessary to give to the boats all the ralasadva slit 2
conveniences deserve cart ful consideration, but may be
safely left to the authority to which the execution of this
service may be entrusted."
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With reference to the reception-houses a very correct
plan of the metropolis has been prepared to show the
relative distances from the river Thames of certain pro.
portions of the population. Between Vauxhall-bridge
and Litnehouse, on the north side of the river, upwards
of three-quarters of a million of inhabitants reside
within a mile and half of the river bank, This amount
of population would be at an average distance of three-
qusrt.rs of a mile from reception-houses established
along the banks of the river; but it is now an average
of nearly three miles, or four times greater distance,
from any of the preseq metropolitan cemeteries. The
chief portion of the dense population on the south side
of the river is situated within one mile of its banks, and
consists of upwards of one-third of a million. This
amount of population would Le at an average of only
halt a mile from the proposed reception-housev, while it
is now at an average of three miles from the nearest
present cemetery.
" For this mass of the population," says the report,
it is calculated that the river conveyance would there-
fore be the most economical, and as under all other con-
siderations. it would be preferable, it may safely be in-
ferred that whatever arrangements may be made with
rtfaence to the existing cemeteries or other extended
provision, that the whole t f the poorer class, and the
great msjority f the higher, would avail themselves of
this accommodation.

Looking also a• the position of large outlying areas,
containing a great amount t‘f population, and considering
the adiaawles which would be afforded under combined
management at, the reception-houses, and the general
Eaitt rn Cemetery, it is considered that, irrespectiVe of
any local accommodation which may
.exist or may be
prorid,d, large additional numbers from these outside
digrie;s would voluntarily adopt also the river Cou-
rt:3l

•" As the entire f the poorer classes of the districts
abovementioned bordering on the Thames, forming up;
:►ard, of three-fourths of the whole population Of this
part of London, may be assumed to take advantage of
tl e river conveyance, it can scarcely be safe to reckon
that lass than two-thirds of the whole number (linnets's
I.f the metropolis would lave to be eccommodated in the
eastern cern' ttry, and that reception-houses on the river
banks must be provided for an annual mortality of 35,000,
or 96 daily deaths.

- RECEPTION HOUSES.
"Ii is therefore submitted that there shoal be five
revel ton-houses on the north sideni the riverslaud three
on the south side. The loc,liti4 s most convenient for
th,m would appear tote the neighbourhood of the fol-
lowing place, viz.:—