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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 sepa-
rate 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.