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INTRAMURAL BURIAL.
priate arrangements, while it would relieve the
public of that which, called by the mildest name,
is a nuisance and a source of heavy expense.
INTRAMURAL BURIAL.
IV. The subject of intramural burial is the
next on which I have to report, as affecting the
health of the City.
In compliance with an order of the Health Committee,
I have examined as fully as circumstances
would allow into the requirements of the City of
London in respect of burial accommodation, and
the result of my inquiry obliges me to express my
conviction, that the City can no longer with
safety or propriety be allowed to furnish intramural
interment to its dead.
In all those larger parochial burying-grounds
where the maintenance of a right to bury can
be considered important,— in all such, and in
most others, too, the soil is saturated and supersaturated
with animal matter undergoing slow