Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Feb. 9. 1889.

W. F. Primrose, Esq., Sec. Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.

Dear Sir:-

Your note of 6th inst. is received. The tombs referred to in our annual report are the single compartment tombs with a door above ground where several bodies are placed in this single compartment, in distinction to those in which each body is placed in a separate sealed compartment.

Brick graves and underground tombs being covered with earth are not objected to, and the present rule in this cemetery is, that all tombs that may be built with a door above ground are required to be so constructed that each body is placed in a separate compartment, which is hermetically sealed at the time of the interment. The box tombs, as they are called having only one door between the decaying remains and the outer air, give off odors, and are not considered by health authorities to be proper places for the deposit of the dead.

Respectfully yours,

Supt.