CREMATE THE DEAD 



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ex- 



following examples come under my personal ob- 

 servation : 



In Fig. 112 a is a graveyard containing hundreds 

 of burials; b is a village. The graveyard is sev- 

 enty-five feet or more higher than the village, and 

 only a few rods from it. Hundreds of families in 

 the village use water, each from a well. It is man- 

 ifest that the wells are only too easily contam- 

 inated by subsoil drainage from the graveyard. 



