God's Acre

434.   Nuisance, Public Health, Disease. —A cemetery is not a nuisance  per se , but if it is proved that the burial of dead bodie...

 "Health of towns": an examination of the report and evidence of the Select Committee: ofcMr. Mackinnon's Bill:  .... fo...

                                   " In October, 1837, M. Deschamps, an inhabitant of la Guillotiere, at Lyons, died at the end of a s...

The condition in which the remains are often found on the occurrence of a death at the eastern part of the metropolis are thus described ...

                                                                                 " Miasms arising from churchyards are in general too...

"The evidence is just as indubitable that exhalations arise from the bodies of the dead, which are capable of producing disease and dea...

Mr- Hutchinson, surgeon, Farringdon-street, was called on Monday morning, the 15th March, 1841, to attend a girl, aged 14, who was labouring...

" Mr. Elcock, student of anatomy, slightly punctured his finger in opening the body of a hospital patient about twelve o'clock at n...

Ashill Parish Church and Cemetery © Godric Godricson "Undertakers state that they sometimes experience, in particularly crowd...

"Dr. Copeland, in his evidence before the Committee of the House of Commons, adduced the following remarkable case, stated to be of fev...

© Godric Godricson "The effects of unguarded interments have, however, as will subsequently be noticed, been observed with greater...