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VIEWS IN EONDON NECROPOEIS CO.’S BROOKWOOD CEMETERY. WOKING, ENG. 
1. Private Railway Station in the Cemetery. 2. Avenue and Trees, showing hedges used for lot boundaries. 3. View of 
Lawn and Graves. 4. Mausoleum, and Ornamental Planting 
square feet area, and are furnished in light oak, the 
floors laid with parquetry, and the whole artistically 
treated, thus avoiding any additional gloom in con- 
nection with a gathering necessarily sad. 
The platform from which the trains depart is light, 
free from disfiguring advertisements, and sheltered 
from both rain and wind. The funeral trains draw 
up alongside the waiting rooms and mourners pass 
straight into the reserved cars. 
No detail has been overlooked that could assist in 
the quiet and decorous conduct of the funeral, and 
the arrangements are such that two or three funerals 
may travel by the same train without one party being 
conscious of the presence of the other. 
On one side of the platform a private chapel, 36 by 
24 feet, is provided for bodies lying in state, and to 
enable those who can not go to the service at the ceme- 
tery to attend the first part of it here ; in the center 
stands an oak catafalque, with seats around it for the 
clergy and congregation. The walls are artistically 
treated in bronze and green. For the very poor, to 
whom funeral charges are a serious outlay, there is 
provided a waiting-room, in size 34 feet by 25 feet, 
and a separate platform. 
On the ground floor is provided a waiting-room and 
a general mortuary, 37 feet by t 8 feet. Several pri- 
vate mortuary chambers, 14 feet by 16 feet, are also 
provided, as is very necessary in a great city where 
deaths so often occur in hotels and lodgings, where it 
is impossible for the body to remain. On the first floor 
is the general office, counting-house and general man- j 
ager’s office. Adjoining this room is another, which I 
serves as an order office, and opens on to the staircase J 
by a private door. On the third floor is provided a 
well-appointed board-room and estate office, and a well ■ 
equipped drafting room is also provided. ® 
It was in 1850 that Parliament ordered the more iB 
crowded churchyards of London closed to further |& 
burials, and as a result of this the great cemeteries 
which surround London were first made necessary. * 
But 50 years is a long time in the history of the me- 
tropolis, and probably three million interments is a 
modest estimate of the number that have been received 
by these new burial grounds. The result is today seen 
in the crowded and unsightly cemeteries of the 
suburbs. To such an extent have these filled up that 
in many it is almost impossible to reach a grave or 
vault without walking on the curbs of others ; and the 
battalions of gravestones produce such a morbid and 
disagreeable effect that it is common to hear dread 
expressed at the idea of burial in a London cemetery. 
It was this state of affairs that led to the establish- 
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