Coalville Times | 1894-12-21 | Page 7 | Graveyard Soil

iirirnl unit hllo cremation of Ilia dead lie I tin donbtedly granting In favor It appear that tho danger attending Iha unit nary burial II practice ma have been ox aggcrnled Title eal It I frrl ly n chemical and Imctcrlologkal examlna thin of sample of virgin tolls points og rleultural cilht and graveyard tollt that hit lately been made t > Scotch Inveatlgalor Ir James Buchanan ounj The proportion ol organic matter an judged by tile organic Carbon Car-bon and nitrogen present In I tile I Samples Sam-ples wnn found to bo not materially greater In toll that ha been used for burial than In good pure agricultural Mill No pathogcnlo organism veto discovered In the graveyard toll and the number of bacteria present though greater thin In virgin toll IIDI much smaller than one might expect Tho results In fact tend to support tile Idea that properly conducted burial In tultablo aud well I drained soils can cauto no rltli to public hcalllu