Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-01-22
CITY CEMETERIES.
A MASS OF TESTIMONY TO SHOW
THEIR UNHeAlTAFULNess
What Latimer Wrote Over Three Hundred
Year. Ago - Mo, biao Emanatious-
Pollution Of Wells-Cholera and
Yellow Fever lnfectton.

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In his sSepultnre and its Methods
nsS4l Hr stephen Wickes brings IT,
gether great mass o. fact and testi-
mcny to show the unbealthfulness OF
CITY cemeteries Bishop atimer in 1859
wrote Il doe much marvel that London
being soc rich u cite. hath not baryinge
pla withoute. for NJ doubt II Is an un
wholesom ihinge TO bury within the
cite. esrecia'lie at such time when
there Ne great sicknesses. and mamie de
together And think no lesse but it IL
the occasion Of great sicknesses and dis
ease Adam larke is 0, advises that
no buryinc lare I've tolerated within
cities and towns. much less in OF about
churches God decency and health for
bid this ahomination I am assured
from long observation that churches
situated in gravevards are perfectly un-
wholes me. and many bv attending such
places are shortening their rsssage 10 the
house appointed for all living Every
man should know that the gas diseL-
gagged frnm human body Is destructive
of animal life
DANGER FROM .NANATroNs.
Bascom eivey an account of the re-
moval OF earth from the surface Of .
cburchyard in Minchinhampton in lS43
TO change its grade and its spread upon
nd dining fields Immediately an epi.
demic broke out in the neighbor
hood Children on their wav 10
schoo' took It Seventeen deaths &C.
Cured. and more than 200 children
bad measles. scarlet fever. aud various
eruptions. Or Wickes gives many in
stances Of sudden death and of prolonged
and serious illness resulting from the IN
halation of gases escaping from imper-
feet or open graves. He quotes DIR Lyon
Playfair thus: @The effects produced by
de aging emanations will vary according
10 their intensity or concentration. Thus.
there NAV be churcbyards and sewers
evolving decaying matter and yet no fever
occur in the locality Some modified ef
feet may he produced. such as diarrhea or
even dysentery. or there NAV be no i'm
mediate effec,. though the blood may be
thrown into disea~ed state. which will
render it susceptible to any specific con-
tagion that approaches
Nor Is the danger obviated by deep
burials The merbific matter is difTused
through the subsoil II the intermen.s
are so deep as to impede escapes at the
surface there is only the greatest danger
Of escape by deep drainage and the polu-
tion Of springs and wells. Dr. Reid de.
tected the ESCAPE of deIeterious miasma
from graves more than twenty feet deep
pr. eigh of Manchester says ~the gases
would find ready exit from almost any
depth The effects OF these escapes in an
otherwise salubrious locality attract no
tice. but their influence is not less scat
tered over town when they escape oh
servation.
POLLUTION OF WELLS.
Much complaint was at one time made
In England concerning the pollution Of
wells by city cemeteries In Versailles.
France the water of the wells which lie
be ow the churchyard of ST. Louis could
could not he used on account Of its pollu.
tion. Heep wells have been found to be
polluted more than 800 feet from the GENE
ieries. In France and in some parts ef
Germany the opening of wells within 800
feet Of q cemetery has been prohibited
The reports of the boards of health OF
Massachusetts, and New Jersey give
abundant evidence that country grave
yards often polluie the water supply when
the wells are on . lower level So does
the Michigan reports in . case at Grand
apidA
Lr. Parton in his report on the yellow
fever in New Orleans in 1s53 says that
the greatest mortality obtained in the
district where the principal cemeteries
were located declares that in no case
should . dwelling be permitted within
several hundred yards Of a cemetery. ="
and recommends that all cemeteries
within cit, limits be closed against futur e
use. EE BRYANT writing on yellow
fever at Norfolk in 1>55. also regards the
CITY cemeteries as . constant scource of
danger in an epidemic and urges -the
total forbidding Of intra mural or even
near BY suburban cemeteries When
the fe er was in New York in 1922 the
report of the board of health showed
that the morality in the vicinity OF
Trinity church graveyard was as three to
one when compared with any other por
tions of the city even where the streets
were narrower and closer This church
yard was the center Of very fatal prevail.
ence Of cholera at every visit Of that PEST
from 1882 to 1854
CHoLtRA INFANTUN.
DR.. Ranch. Of Iowa. writes that during
the prevalence of the cholera in Burling.
ton in 1850 there were no deaths IN the
neighbrrhood Of the cemetery until some
twenty bsd been buried there After
ward, until the epidemic ceased. cases
were constant. and alwa,s In the direc-
tion from the cemetery in which the
wind blew" Buck in his Hygiene,
writes; 1T is impossible for any one n
say how long the mater:es morbi may
continue 10 live under ground II or
ganic matter can be broileJ and frozen
without losing its vitality. and seeds
1900 years old will sprout when planted.
il would be hardihood to assert that the
poison of cholera. or small pox. or typhus
may not for years lie dormant. but not
dead in the moist temperature Of the
grave
hadwick in his report on the sanitary
condition of Great Britain writes: "The
injurious effects Of exhaiations from the
decomposition in question on the health
and life of man is proved by a snfi' cent
number Of trustworthy facts The in
furious influence is manifest in proper
ton TO the concentration of the emsna-
tiona Sometimes it produces asphyxia
and sudden death. In less concentrated
state the emanstions produces fainting
nausea. headache, languor. II. however.
thee are often repeated they produce
nervous and other fevers, or impart 10
fevers arising from other causes q typhoid