An Exposition of the Dangers of Interment in Cities

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Excerpt from An Exposition of the Dangers of Interment in Cities: Illustrated by an Account of the Funeral Rites and Customs of the Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, and Primitive Christians, by Ancient and Modern Ecclesiastical Canons, Civil Statutes, and Municipal Regulations, and by Chemical and Physical PrinciplesI now beg leave to take this method of congratulating my fellow-citizens on the firm and wise plan of Operations be gun by our magistrates and the Board of Health. In en deavouring to rescue our city from the visitation of malig nant fevers, they have scrupulously avoided enlisting them selves under the banners of this or that theorist on the origin of summer and fall fevers. With more prudence and philosophy, they strike at the root of every ostensible source of a calamity that more probably is the effect of a combination of several causes, than the effects of a single one. This procedure has been constituted one of their otfi cial duties by the legislature in 1813, which directed them to regulate or prevent the interment of the dead within the city. May they continue to prosecute their task success fully. Public officers are seldom rewarded with public ap probation, and the testimony of upright intentions is too often their only recompense, but I hope, that these, more fortunate than the generality, willdeservedly enjoy the per feet confidence of the community, and the harmonious con currence of their fellow-citizens in their measures for the present emergency.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.