CHAPTEE XCIII 

 CREMATE THE DEAD 



RIGHTFULLY caring for the living is rightfully 

 caring for the dead so disposing of the dead as 

 to leave no trace of danger to the living. 



The usual disposal of the dead, by interment 

 in city cemetery or country graveyard, is, in two 

 ways, unsafe. 



First, poison or germs from the decaying bodies 

 may find their way by subsoil drainage to water 

 supplies. Not unfrequently the burial place is an 

 elevated plane near a stream. The subsoil drain- 

 age flows into the stream. 



Farther down the stream, it may be a few rods 

 or a few miles, is an intake pipe supplying water 

 to a city. The danger is evident. 



In Fig. Ill a represents the cemetery; b the 

 stream; c the intake pipe; d the city. 



The cemetery is near the bank of the stream, and 

 higher than the stream. By subsoil drainage the 

 poison or germs from the decaying bodies in the 

 cemetery pollute the water of the stream; and the 

 polluted water, finding its way into the intake pipe, 

 produces disease among its users in the city. 



Country places of burial, also, are too often so 

 situated as to contaminate wells and springs. The 



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