Cemetery burial, or Sepulture, ancient and modern / by George Milner, a director of the Hull General Cemetery Company.

  • Milner, George (Director of the Hull General Cemetery Company)
Date:
1847
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Credit: Cemetery burial, or Sepulture, ancient and modern / by George Milner, a director of the Hull General Cemetery Company. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CEMETERY BURIAL OR SEPULTURE. ittoficrn. \Vc will next offer a few remarks on modern Sepulture. Our present practice of burial in crowded ehurch-yni^s, ami especially beneath Religious F.dificcs, is neither safe for the living, nor respectfvd to the dead.: this subject, I am happy to say, is now engaging the attention of the public mind, and has not escaped the obsen ations of our legislature; and it is to be hoped, ere long, that through the ]>ersevering energy’ of Mr. Mackinnon, or some other philanthropist, measures may be adoptwl to remedy this crying evU; and to provide for the more decent interment of the dead, in large towns and {Kipuloiu distrids. 'Plie report of the 1‘Hcidth of Towns Commissioners” clearly shows that the interference of Parliament, in this matter, has long been required. Our leading jouniids in the metropolis, as well as the pronnccs, have in a very praiseworthy manner, taken up the •ubject. When an evil is proved to exist, a remedy should always be sought for. I am not one of those who advocate hasty mca.sun-8, and undigested plans, or, for the sake of Aange, would uproot our tim«!-ludlowed institutions, and overturn cstablisheil usages and customs, or mendy to gain l>op»darity, a<lvocate “organic changes,” which must cven- heap ruin, instead of benefit, upon the heads of those jnaf are professedly said to Ire Iwnetilcd; still, when we wk annind us, and find increiwing populations re<juiro hat, forthi' safety and comfort of the living, Ixtter provision