BOARDING-HOUSES FOR DEAD.
AMAZING BUSINESS IN ROME. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 25, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 24. The Rome correspondent of the Daily Express says it is customary to bury the dead in the Roman district in brick vaults belonging to the municipality, but, owing to the building crisis, there is now a serious shortage of vaults, and a business has sprung up to provide so-called boardinghouses for the dead. Speculators secure the rights to use large existing tombs, capable of holding fifteen to twenty bodies. Hearing of a death, they bargain with the relatives, offering a place in the tomb for £3O or £4O, and the relatives generally pay rather than have the body lying for months in the mortuary chapel until the municipality build more vaults.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1921, Page 5
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131BOARDING-HOUSES FOR DEAD. Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1921, Page 5
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