God's Acre

                                                                                 " 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...

Detail: Ashill Parish Church The following testimony of a lady, respecting the miasma which escaped from one burial-ground at Manchest...

Detail: Ashill Parish Church © Godric Godricson Edwin Chadwick's report on burials is a seminal work that influenced a generation o...