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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
It will be noted in the above communi- 
cation that Mr. Halliday very gracefully 
sidesteps answering all of the essential 
points of information asked for except 
two, and in his answers to these two be- 
trays such a quantity of misinformation 
that for the good of his cause he had 
much better refrained also from answering 
these. 
served you could preserve several thou- 
sand on the same basis,” is also merely an 
opinion, and unsupported by scientific evi- 
dence or experience. In fact, anyone who 
is familiar with mausoleum construction 
knows that it is impossible to secure the 
“same basis” of construction in a building 
holding several thousand or several hun- 
dred bodies as in one containing a half 
parts of the country. In fact, the ship- 
ping rules adopted by the Conference of 
State Boards of Health, which are in force 
in nearly every state in the Union, posi- 
tively require that bodies dead of certain 
diseases be hermetically sealed in metal- 
lined caskets or the caskets hermetically 
sealed in metal-lined outer boxes. We 
quote from this rule as follows : 
THE FUTURE OF THE TENEMENT MAUSOLEUM 
A Community Mausoleum Argument Without Words 
ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN A SOUTH AMERICAN CITY WHERE COMMUNITY MAUSOLEUM INTERMENT HAS BEEN 
PRACTICED LONG ENOUGH TO TEST ITS VALUE . 
In his second paragraph he refers to 
“buildings standing today in a fair con- 
dition of preservation in which human 
bodies were placed 829 B. C.” In the ab- 
sence of any photographs of the said 
buildings or any disinterested report on 
their condition, we should prefer to doubt 
the accuracy of this information. On the 
other hand, we show on this page a pho- 
tograph of a community mausoleum 
erected considerably later than B. C., which 
Mr. Halladay will doubtless admit is hardly 
in good condition for receiving interments. 
The statement in the next paragraph that 
'in a house in which one body can be pre- 
dozen. It is impossible to secure the mas- 
sive stones, the small number of pieces, 
the absence of vertical joints, the roof con- 
struction of a few large stones that are 
essential features of good construction in 
private mausoleums. 
“It is positively known,” says Mr. Hal- 
liday further, “that no receptacle holding 
a human body can be hermetically sealed 
without any vent, without an explosition” 
(presumably meaning an “explosion”). 
On the other hand, “it is positively 
known” that bodies are hermetically 
sealed in caskets and metal-lined shipping 
boxes every day, and shipped to various 
Rule 2. The transportation of bodies dead of 
Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, tyhpus fever, diphtheria 
(membranous croup), scarlet fever (scarlatina, scar- 
let rash), erysipelas, glanders, anthrax or leprosy, 
shall not be accepted for transportation unless pre- 
pared for shipment by being thoroughly disinfected 
by (a) arterial and cavity injection with an ap- 
proved disinfecting fluid; (b) disinfection and stop- 
ping- of all orifices with absorbent cotton; and (c) 
washing the body with the disinfectant, all of 
which must be done by an embalmer holding a cer- 
tificate as such, issued by the state or provincial 
board of health, or other state or provincial author- 
ity provided for by law. 
After being disinfected as above, such bodies shall 
be enveloped in a layer of dry cotton not less than 
one inch thick, completely wrapped in a sheet se- 
curely fastened and encased in an air tight zinc, cop- 
per or lead lined coffin or iron casket, all joints 
and seams hermetically sealed, and all enclosed In 
a strong, tight wooden box, or the body prepared 
