Cremation of the Dead: Its History and Bearings Upon Public Health
CHAPTER IV.
DANGERS OF OUR SYSTEM OF BURIAL.
Churchyards and the evils resulting from some of them--How the living are affected by them--Disorders caused by putrid emanations--Dangers of inhaling the atmosphere of some burial-grounds--Vaults--Poisoning of wells and water-courses--Laxity of many interments 53-67