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Chit Chat.
1 have shown you , in the first place , that the innoculation of putrid animal matter , during dissection for example , often gives rise to a putrid disease which terminates in death . I next proved that botlies , before they are interred , may either communicate to the living specific diseases , such as the plague , typhus fever , & c , or cause serious derangement to the health from the ordinary products of decomposition . I then traced the same fatal agency to the dead body after interment , showing that sudden death or grievous maladies have been produced by the poisonous emanations from vaults or open graves ; and arriving at what ought to be a last resting-place for the dead—the grave-yard , I demonstrated to
you that the emanations from such places are injurious in the highest degree , and that more especially where ignorance , cupidity , or insolent immorality have insulted the remains of the dead , the punishment has in some cases been instant and unmistakable , I proved , beyond the possibility of cavil , that with limited spaces of burial in the midst of an ever-increasing population , such necessity must not only exist , but become more urgent every day . The abominations connected with intra-mural sepulture must continue , they must assume a more dangerous
and more disgusting character every day , because with a rapidly increasing population we have no means of extending the narrow limits assigned to its defunct integers . —From Mr . G . A . Walker ' s Fourth Lecture on the Metropolitan Grave-Yards .
POISONING OF THE LIVING BY EXHALATIONS FROM THE DEAD . —In the latter part of the year 184 . 1 , and beginning of 1842 , fever raged violently amongst the European troops quartered at Port Royal , Fort Augusta , up Park Camp , and Stony Hill , situated on the southern side of the island of Jamaica . Stony Hill , situated nine miles from the town of Kingston , up the mountain , had , up to the period of the breaking out of the fever , been considered particularly healthy . The military
labourers ( natives ) could not be induced to make graves in the burialplace ; the stench was so overpowering , that they affirmed they would drop dead themselves . They made , however , merely shallow graves , close to the public road , under the drunken excitement of brandy and
rum . The lady who furnished me with this account states , that she has seen , during the rainy season , ( when this mortality occurred ) , the earth crack under the influence of the sun ' s heat , and a smoke issue therefrom , thicker than a London fog . During such periods it was impossible to pass the church-yard in consequence of the intolerable stench ; indeed , many persons would go miles out of their way in order to avoid it . There was a forge in the immediate vicinity of this
burialground , and it was well known that every person who worked , or was in any way employed therein ( at that time ) were seized with fever , and the majority died ! So fatal were the consequences of this proximity of the grave-yard that the forge was shut up . —From Mr . G . A . Walker ' s Fourth Lecture on the Metropolitan Grave-Yards .
MARIIIED . —August 9 , at Abergavenny , by the Rev . — Fielding , Bro . James Davies , Esq ., of Eastbatch Court , to Mary Hanbury , daughter of F . H . Williams , Esq ., of Coldbrook Park . The town was the scene of happiness , gaiety and festivity . The preparations were on the grandest scale . The nobility and gentry , to the amount of one hundred and fifty dined , as did a number of tenantry . There was a ball in the evening , and the church bells rang merrily throughout the day .
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Chit Chat.
1 have shown you , in the first place , that the innoculation of putrid animal matter , during dissection for example , often gives rise to a putrid disease which terminates in death . I next proved that botlies , before they are interred , may either communicate to the living specific diseases , such as the plague , typhus fever , & c , or cause serious derangement to the health from the ordinary products of decomposition . I then traced the same fatal agency to the dead body after interment , showing that sudden death or grievous maladies have been produced by the poisonous emanations from vaults or open graves ; and arriving at what ought to be a last resting-place for the dead—the grave-yard , I demonstrated to
you that the emanations from such places are injurious in the highest degree , and that more especially where ignorance , cupidity , or insolent immorality have insulted the remains of the dead , the punishment has in some cases been instant and unmistakable , I proved , beyond the possibility of cavil , that with limited spaces of burial in the midst of an ever-increasing population , such necessity must not only exist , but become more urgent every day . The abominations connected with intra-mural sepulture must continue , they must assume a more dangerous
and more disgusting character every day , because with a rapidly increasing population we have no means of extending the narrow limits assigned to its defunct integers . —From Mr . G . A . Walker ' s Fourth Lecture on the Metropolitan Grave-Yards .
POISONING OF THE LIVING BY EXHALATIONS FROM THE DEAD . —In the latter part of the year 184 . 1 , and beginning of 1842 , fever raged violently amongst the European troops quartered at Port Royal , Fort Augusta , up Park Camp , and Stony Hill , situated on the southern side of the island of Jamaica . Stony Hill , situated nine miles from the town of Kingston , up the mountain , had , up to the period of the breaking out of the fever , been considered particularly healthy . The military
labourers ( natives ) could not be induced to make graves in the burialplace ; the stench was so overpowering , that they affirmed they would drop dead themselves . They made , however , merely shallow graves , close to the public road , under the drunken excitement of brandy and
rum . The lady who furnished me with this account states , that she has seen , during the rainy season , ( when this mortality occurred ) , the earth crack under the influence of the sun ' s heat , and a smoke issue therefrom , thicker than a London fog . During such periods it was impossible to pass the church-yard in consequence of the intolerable stench ; indeed , many persons would go miles out of their way in order to avoid it . There was a forge in the immediate vicinity of this
burialground , and it was well known that every person who worked , or was in any way employed therein ( at that time ) were seized with fever , and the majority died ! So fatal were the consequences of this proximity of the grave-yard that the forge was shut up . —From Mr . G . A . Walker ' s Fourth Lecture on the Metropolitan Grave-Yards .
MARIIIED . —August 9 , at Abergavenny , by the Rev . — Fielding , Bro . James Davies , Esq ., of Eastbatch Court , to Mary Hanbury , daughter of F . H . Williams , Esq ., of Coldbrook Park . The town was the scene of happiness , gaiety and festivity . The preparations were on the grandest scale . The nobility and gentry , to the amount of one hundred and fifty dined , as did a number of tenantry . There was a ball in the evening , and the church bells rang merrily throughout the day .