Burial-ground incendiarism. The last fire at the bone-house in the Spa-Fields golgotha, or, The minute anatomy of grave-digging in LondonLongman, 1846 - 80 pages |
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... coffins being but a few inches from the surface . The condition of the majority of grave - yards and burying - places in London has been such for many years that they have not been capable of receiving the annual mortality . There are ...
... coffins being but a few inches from the surface . The condition of the majority of grave - yards and burying - places in London has been such for many years that they have not been capable of receiving the annual mortality . There are ...
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... coffins in vaults ( under a medium temperature ) that the lids of coffins , notwithstanding the atmospheric pressure , become convex , and sometimes are rent asunder . Indisputable facts prove that the gaseous exhalations from dead ...
... coffins in vaults ( under a medium temperature ) that the lids of coffins , notwithstanding the atmospheric pressure , become convex , and sometimes are rent asunder . Indisputable facts prove that the gaseous exhalations from dead ...
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... coffins frequently become convex , and sometimes are rent asunder , and the gases thus and otherwise disengaged become diffused and mixed with the atmosphere , and enter the lungs in every inspiration . That in warmer climates , and in ...
... coffins frequently become convex , and sometimes are rent asunder , and the gases thus and otherwise disengaged become diffused and mixed with the atmosphere , and enter the lungs in every inspiration . That in warmer climates , and in ...
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... coffins , I knew had been carried on in the so - called BONE HOUSE , in the Spa - Fields burying - ground , for very many years . I knew that practices the most foul , inhuman , and atrocious , had been - must be , pursued To MAKE SPACE ...
... coffins , I knew had been carried on in the so - called BONE HOUSE , in the Spa - Fields burying - ground , for very many years . I knew that practices the most foul , inhuman , and atrocious , had been - must be , pursued To MAKE SPACE ...
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... coffin wood piled round the room drying , a fire made entirely of coffins in the grate , and portions of human bones also . The engine - keeper particularly noticed the appearance of the chimney , and charged the * It has been most ...
... coffin wood piled round the room drying , a fire made entirely of coffins in the grate , and portions of human bones also . The engine - keeper particularly noticed the appearance of the chimney , and charged the * It has been most ...
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