This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...can be thoroughly drained. The undulations of the surface afford opportunity to make the place more attractive by the arts of the landscape gardener. Trees should be cherished, trimmed from below and not standing too densely. Evergreens should not abound if they feather from the ground. Hedges of arbor vitse and dense ...
Read More
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...can be thoroughly drained. The undulations of the surface afford opportunity to make the place more attractive by the arts of the landscape gardener. Trees should be cherished, trimmed from below and not standing too densely. Evergreens should not abound if they feather from the ground. Hedges of arbor vitse and dense shrubs around and within the burial plots ought to be forbidden. They collect and hold the noxious gases which rise from beneath. No vegetation, however beautiful in itself, should prevent the free circulation of the air which dilutes the emanations from the " In searching for cases of recent date of disease resulting from graveyard infection, we find that such are almost unknown to medical literature. The only marked European case which we have yet discovered is that mentioned by Pietra Santa, of the villages of Rotendella and Ballita, in Italy. The cemeteries of these villages were at the summit of a wooded hill, at a considerable distance from the houses. The springs from which the water was obtained were at the foot of the hill, and ultimately the water became highly contaminated. A severe epidemic which recently visited these villages was ascribed to the use of this impure water. A similar case occurred during the past year in Barbary, as an incident of the plague which has recently visited that country. The people of a certain village lived in excavations in rocks, getting their water supply from wells into which water had run from the cemetery where bodies were covered only a foot deep with gravel. Those only who had drank of this impure water were attacked with the plague." /. F. A. Adams, M. D., in Report of Mass, B. of Health, 1875. graves and thus renders them innocuous. Trees should never be allowed to impede the circulat...
Read Less
