Introductory report, suggesting the outline of a scheme for extramural interment : submitted to the Improvement-Committee of the Hon. the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London / by the Medical Officer of Health.

  • Simon, Sir John, 1816-1904.
Date:
1853
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Credit: Introductory report, suggesting the outline of a scheme for extramural interment : submitted to the Improvement-Committee of the Hon. the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London / by the Medical Officer of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    immense interests involved in your success, I cannot but earnestly hope that such experience may be made available for your information. At an early period you will have to determine what appointments will be requisite, with a view to the architectural and other designs of your ceme- tery, to its economical planning and decorations, to the superintendence of its daily working, to its financial management, to the conveyance of bodies, and to all intramural organisation connected there- with. Minute details will be best considered when these appointments are made, and when you will naturally have the benefit of such practical experi- ence as may best assist your deliberations. For the task on which you are engaged extends, I need hardly say, far beyond the purchase of certain acres for your burial ground. It implies for its completion, that you shall possess an adequate plan on which the interment of your population may be managed during many succeeding generations; a plan constructed, first of all, with entire regard to the general good of the public, and next, with as little violence as may be to those habits, prejudices, and interests, which are involved in the present system of interment. The construction of such a plan constitutes a very large question of municipal policy;—one which because of its solemn subject, and because of the degree in which human feelings and affections are involved in it, requires to be handled with peculiar