The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1823-05-12
BuRIALs IN CITIES.

Every Tact which can throw any light
on this subject, or tend to convince the.
scrupulous Of the danger which may a.
rise from the practice Of buryine in cities,
should be promptly published. The ss,.
lowing we extract from the Boston Ga.
lazy, which the editor says he selected
from small weekly paper under the SUI
pcrimcndence OF DR.. Smith.
Al Snulieu, Burgundy, mild catar-
rbal fever was epidemic. A very corpu-
lent body was buried in the church OF ST.
Sa,urnin. Twenty three days after, a pic
was opcncdby the side of that in which
was the corpulent body, to bury a woman
who died in child bed, under the fever. "A
most felid odour Immediately filled the
church and affected all who entered. In
putting the woman's coffin into the nit.
some sanies issued-its odour strongly
affected the assistants. Of one hundred
and seventy people who entered. tho
church, from the opening of the pit till
the burial, one hundred and forty nine
were attacked with putrid malignant
fever somewhat resembling the epidem-
ic. Its nature and intensity left no doubt
il owed its malignity to the infection of the
church 80
A malignant epidemic fever, caused
by removal OF the earth OF the cemetry of
81. Peters church, also shews the dan>
gers ofburials in churches and popuious
places. at Auvergne, an old eemetry
was dug over 10 embcllish the town,
and soon after an epidemic appeared,
which carried off great msny people,
particularly the poor, and in the neigh
borhood OF the cemetry. Six years be-
fore, like cause produced and epidem.
&c in Ambert, in Auvergne.
In this Dissert NJ. Maret's Mem. are
described the terrible consequences of
infection in the Cathedral of Montpelier
from 6urials.
The body of a very fat pcrsoD was b.
ried under foot of earth and eigh, in.
ches of stone; the abundant vspors from
1t made it necessary to dig it up. Three
diggers undertook 1.-TWO o. them we're
attacked with violent vomiting, and LETT
the work; the thisd determined to finish
1t, and died in ten days after.
The curate of Array le Duo, Norman.
dy, after having breathed the infected air
from the body he was burying, had pu-
trid disease which reduced him TO tbs
last extremity.
The lord of village, two leagues
from Naniz, died. To place his coffin
according to his friends wishes, il was
necessary 10 remove several collins, a.
mong which was that of his relation. A
mostietid odour spreaditselfinth church,
Fifteen Of the visitants died shortly after
the four persons who removed the coffin
died hrst; six curates, present at The GER
emony, hardly escaped death.
Ihe water of the wells below the ccn1-
etry OF 81, Louis, at Versailles, could not
be used OH account OF fetidness.
Al Lectoure, 100 miles from Paris,
the opening of body was followed by
an epidemic.
In digging vaults in the church of ST.
Eustache, Paris, j: was necessary to move
some bodies. and to put others in a vaul,
which had been long time shut. Chill
dren who went TO catechisu inthe church,
and many adults, were seized with diff
Guilty of respiration, irregularities of
pulse some OF them with conyulsioas of
the limbs.
From l776 burials in towns and cbur-
ches is forbidden in France. IniSiO an
archbishop of AK in vain solicited of the
government the favor to be buried in bis
cathedral.
Abe las, burial ground established by.
the city OF Boston, is in remote part Of
us suburbs IT presents great ncatness
and security. -
HAYTI..
we learn, says the New York Ga
ze'te, from gentleman who arrived in
the brig President, at Philadelphia, from
Port.au-Prince. that the private secre,a.
ry OF the president, Nj. CoIombcl. had
gone TO England. 1t was supposed that