The baneful custom of interment in towns, and the present state of the York grave yards : a lecture, delivered in the Merchant's Hall, York, on Thursday, June 10, 1847 / by Alfred E. Hargrove.

  • Hargrove, Alfred E.
Date:
1847
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Credit: The baneful custom of interment in towns, and the present state of the York grave yards : a lecture, delivered in the Merchant's Hall, York, on Thursday, June 10, 1847 / by Alfred E. Hargrove. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTERMENT IN TOWNS, AND THE YORK GRAVE-YARDS. ^^)T a time like the present, when the eg® PubHc'Health has become a matter of serious consideration, I conceive it to be the duty of every one to come foi-^^ard, and assist in aiding the existing movement for Sanitary Reform. Under this impression, I have cheerfully comphed with the request of some members of the York Health of Towns' Association, to state my opinions on Intra-Mmal Interment, to which I have paid considerable attention. It is a subject which is entitled to the most serious con- sideration of all classes; and I trust I shall be able to convince you, by the facts I shall adduce, that the mortality produced, by the present system of buiying the dead in the midst of the living, is far greater than is generally behoved. In no city is an inquiry of this kind so much wanted as in York; for, where do grave-yai'ds abound to a greater extent ? or, where are they more crowded ? Desecration is daily taking place—desecration of the most indecent, disgusting, and pestilential natm^e. Corpses ai'e consigned to our crowded chui'ch-yai'ds, akeady sodden with human flesh and gore, or