ADDINGTON CEMETERY.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 955, 17 July 1877, Page 3

ADDINGTON CEMETERY.

To the Editor of the Globe. Sir, —A notice having appeared in the GLOBE one evening last week complaining of the bad state of the Addingtou L'eme'e y, and the offensive smells arising therefrom with your leave I will make a few remarks on the subject. During the last seven years I have been almost a weekly visitor of the place, as I rather like to "meditate among the tombs," and view the place where I must shortly lie. It familiarises one's mind with the prospect of approaching dissolution, and I can fully vouch for the truth of your correspondent's statement about the offensive smell, but I quite diff. r from him as to the cause of it. The smell arises not from the decaying bodies under ground in the cemetery, but from decaying matter above ground outside the cemetery. Perhaps your correspondent is a stranger in that locality, and not aware that a soap and caudle factory is just on the other side of the fence, from which at times arises smells of no ordinary kind. I said to the sexton one day when it was very bad, I wondered how he could stand it. He said it was a terrible nuisance, as it kept him often shifting about the place according to the direction of the wind in order to avoid as much as possible inhaling what he considered was detrimental to health. It must be a gre:.t nuisance to those living in the neighbourhood, as they cannot shift about like the sexton. I suppose they just have to griu and bear it. It may be that your correspondent is in favor of that pleasant process called cremati n, and wishes to get up a hue a cry against the time honored custom of burying the dead. One word as to the state of the cemetery. When I first visited it, it certainly was a disgrace to those who had the management of it, but during the last two or three years it looks quite a different place, and it is now a pleasure to <ake a walk through it. The committee of management have been fortunate in securing the services of a sexton who knows his duty, and who evidently takes a pride in having things kept tid" and in proper order, and moreover, seems to have a civil tongue iu his head, which is more than can be said of some gravediggers I have met in my time Hoping you will excuse me for taking up so much space, I am, Yours, &c, A VISITOR.