Report to the board of police of Glasgow, by the medical officer and the master of works, on intramural burying grounds.

  • Gairdner, W. T. (William Tennant), Sir, 1824-1907.
Date:
1870
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Credit: Report to the board of police of Glasgow, by the medical officer and the master of works, on intramural burying grounds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i Fifthly, and lastly. In order to make the preceding sugges- tions even possible to be fully carried out, it would be necessary, if not to create by legal enactment, at all events to encourage to the utmost, new cemeteries arising under good management, at considerable distances from the City; and we are further of opinion that assistance might be given in the conveyance of corpses from the houses of the poor to public mortuaries, from which the most economical means of conveyance might be had to the extramural cemeteries, at such hours as would be reasonably suitable at once for the convenience of the labouring poor and the public con- cerned in preserving the streets from interruption to traffic. JOHN CARR1CK. W. T. GAIIIDNER.