Report of the Medical Officer of Health of the City of London, upon the New River water, and the church yard of St. Andrew's, Holborn / presented to the Commissioners of Sewers, Tuesday, 11th December, 1855.

  • City of London (England). Commissioners of Sewers.
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1855
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Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health of the City of London, upon the New River water, and the church yard of St. Andrew's, Holborn / presented to the Commissioners of Sewers, Tuesday, 11th December, 1855. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the priests and the people who frequented the churches, that legislative enactments were soon framed to put an end to the custom. I may allude to the regulations framed hy the Council of Brague in the year 563, of Nantes in 660, by Theodulphe, the Bishop of Orleans in 794, by Charlemagne in 797, of Aries in 813, of Magouze and De Meaux in 845, and of Trebur in 895. A like spirit prevailed in the ordinances of the Catholic Church from the tenth to the eighteenth century. In proof of this I may mention the edict from Ravenne in 995, from Winchester in 1076, from the famous synod of Toulouse in 1093, from London in 1107, from Cognac in 1255 and 1260, from Bude in 1269, from Nimes in 1284, from Chester 1292, from Avignon in 1326, from Narbonne in 1551, from Toledo in 1566, from Malines in 1570, from Malun in 1579, from Rouen in 1581, from Reims, from Bordeaux, and from Tours in 1583, from Bourges in 1584, from Aix in 1585, from Toulouse in 1590, and from Bordeaux in 1624. All of these were to the effect, that the putrid emanations from the dead were hurtful to the living. It is almost un- necessary to state that the same species of legis- lation, founded on the same kind of experience, has led to the aboHtion of intramural interments in France, Germany, America, and, lastly, in this Metropolis. As to the facts which have accumulated from