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| "Health of towns": an examination of the report and evidence of the Select Committee: of Mr. Mackinnon's Bill: .... for establishing cemeteries around the metropolis. (p:24 1843) |
The Rev. Henry Hart Milman [Link], now Rector of St. Margaret's, Westminster, and formerly Rector of St. Mary's, Reading, a witness only second to the Bishop of London, - for he, too, lived in a churchyard seventeen years, - was thus interrogated :
" Generally speaking, do you conceive that there is any evil arising from it, [burial in churchyards,] so far as it comes within your knowledge ? - I should say, none whatever."