The history of cholera in Exeter in 1832 / by Thomas Shapter.

Date:
1849
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Credit: The history of cholera in Exeter in 1832 / by Thomas Shapter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ] GO fora burial-ground for persons dying of Cholera, they do not, in the present stage of the unfortunate disease now raging in the City, deem it expedient to fix on any other spot of ground as the Cholera burial-place.” The arguments used in support of this resolution were chiefly that the Bury Meadow, being public property, could fairly he devoted to public use, and that funerals proceeding from the east quarter of the City could he there carried, through the Barrack- lane, with greater privacy than by the Pester-lane, passing before fewer houses, &c. Nevertheless, the opinion was stated, that if a Cholera cemetery were to he established in the parish, there was no more suitable spot than the one proposed in Pester-lane. On the following day (Aug. 17) the whole question was resumed, when it was resolved, “ on condition that the Cholera corpses of this parish he allowed to he interred in the Bury Meadow, this parish will, and hereby pledge themselves to provide within this parish, or in parts adjacent, subject to the approbation of the Board of Health, a sufficient spot to receive an equal number of such further Cholera corpses as may, after the filling up of the spot of Bury Meadow as aforesaid, die within the parts of the City, to be appropriated by the Bishop as aforesaid.” Subse- quently to this the Cemetery Committee pursued their course without reference to the parish of St. Sidwell. i7Ang. 1832. On this same day the secretary of the Board of Health reported propped and to the Board itself, that he was authorized by Mr. Joseph Sparkes abandoned. n . . to offer part ol another held in Pester-lane for this purpose. The subject was referred to the Cemetery Committee, who immediately waited upon Mr. Sparkes ; they, however, found the offer clogged with such conditions, as prevented any arrangement being com- pleted. From tlie 17th of August, the interments of all such as had died from Cholera within the City had taken place in the Bury Meadow ground, and there only. The excitement, which had been roused by the appropriation of this portion of the ground, was not only thus maintained, but at length found vent in a public E3xdtomlnt2’meeting °f the parishioners, which was held on the 23rd. The of the parish following is the handbill published at the time containing the re- ofst.David. so]utjons passed at this meeting:—