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be isolated from the dwellings of the working people, who 

 would thus be preserved from their injurious influence. 



That intramural interments are highly injurious to the 

 living is now a well-established fact; but the expense of 

 suburban interments is so great, that many feel a strong objec- 

 tion to them, as well as a not unnatural reluctance to be laid 

 apart from other members of the family who have died in the 

 same locality. This reluctance, however, is a mere matter of 

 feeling, and for the most part is so easily surmounted, when 

 any advantage is to be derived during life from a change of 

 locality — as by emigrants and others — that it should not be 

 allowed any weight against the acknowledged evils of the pre- 

 sent system. As to the expense of funerals, the cost of re- 

 moval an additional three or four miles — even by the present 

 conveyance — is but a trifling item in that senseless bill of 

 costs which is customarily incurred from a fanciful respect to 

 the deceased. The propriety of incurring such lavish expendi- 

 ture, cannot, I think, be seriously defended; and here we 

 have expenses from retrenchment in which, ample means may 

 be economized for securing to the living immunity from the 

 sad evils of intramural interments. Burial grounds should be 

 utterly apart from crowded habitations, and should be sur- 

 rounded by open spaces, over which the deleterious exhalations 

 may be diluted by intermixture with the atmosphere ; in addi- 

 tion, the cemetery should be tastefully laid out and planted, 

 that the visitant may imbibe more wholesome feelings respect- 

 ing the great change in our existence, than he can derive from 

 the ordinary grave-yard, as it is frequently most appropriately 

 styled. 



Our English cemeteries consist merely of the burial ground, 

 and of the chapel, chaplain's house, &c. ; but, at Pranckfort 

 and Munich, houses are provided for the voluntary deposit of 

 the corpse in the interval between death and interment. The 

 great importance of such an establishment can scarcely be 

 overrated, providing as it does a suitable receptacle for those 



