“The presence in these waters of unusual quantities of chlorides, of ammonia, of albuminoid ammonia, of nitrates and nitrites, and finally of phosphates, shows these waters to be very unusual in their composition. We might account for the presence of all these substances if matters very rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, _e.g._, flesh, were undergoing decomposition in their vicinity, and the results of this decomposition passed directly into this water. The fact that the spring is near and lies below the level of the graveyard, that the well is in the midst of an old Indian graveyard, gives much plausibility to this explanation. The fact that the first person attacked with cerebro-spinal meningitis in Petersburg used the water of this well, and that others who used the spring water were attacked with the same disease, would very naturally attract very significant attention to the composition of these waters as having some possible connection with the epidemic.” For several years many residents of Nyack, N.Y., have protested against the encroachment of the Oak Hill Cemetery property upon the thickly populated portions of the village, objections being principally made on sanitary grounds. Examination of the ponds and wells of the village has demonstrated that they are being constantly polluted by the emanations from the cemetery. Not long ago the _Detroit Evening News_ declared that the wells in the neighborhood of Woodmere Cemetery do not catch the rainwater until after it has been filtered through the thousands of graves in the cemetery, filled with decaying bodies, and that no water is obtained in the vicinity which is not discolored and has a brackish taste. After a heavy rain the impurities are most pronounced. The residents of Woodmere have long ago given over the use of water as a beverage. I do not blame them. I would not like to drink fluid extract of dead man myself. The _New York Staats Zeitung_, a reliable German publication, of May 27, 1886, relates that a lawsuit of North Bergen Township, N.J., against the Weehawken Cemetery Company, was tried the preceding day before Vice-Chancellor Van Fleet, at Newark, N.J. The township demands that for sanitary reasons the cemetery shall be closed at once and no further burials permitted in the same. Several physicians testified to the fact that diphtheria and other infectious diseases are endemic in the township, and that they are due mainly to the unhygienic state of the cemetery, which lies in the most populated part of the township. One physician gave it as his opinion that numerous cases of diphtheria that appeared among the little pupils of a school was caused by drinking water from a well in the proximity of the cemetery. In an address on “Public Health, or Sanitary Science,” read before the medical society of the state of West Virginia, May 24, 1882, Dr. T. S. Camden says:—