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INTRAMURAL BURIAL.
who have miscalculated their space; perhaps diffusing
amidst the mourners some nauseous evidence
and conviction, that a prior tenant of the tomb has
been prematurely displaced, or that the spade has
impatiently anticipated the slower dismembering of
decay. Cases of this nature are fresh in the
memory of the public; cases of extreme nuisance
and brutal desecration in place of decent and
solemn interment; and it is unnecessary that I
should revive the record of transactions inconsistent
with even the dawn of civilization.
From the circumstances which I have mentioned,
it can hardly fail to appear most desirable
to you, that the use of some spacious and open
cemetery at a distance from the City should be
substituted for the present system of intramural
interment; and the urgency of this requirement
will be demonstrated all the more cogently, when it
is remembered that the annual amount of mortality
in the City averages above 3000, and that under
the present arrangements every dead body buried
within our walls receives its accommodation at
the expense of the living, and to their great detriment.
In recommending that consideration be given,
at as early a period as possible, to the means for
establishing some sufficient municipal cemetery (a
consideration which, for obvious reasons, must be
prior to any Parliamentary proceedings for the