One of the most notoriously offensive spots in London was Enon Chapel, Clement’s Lane. The chapel was built, and the vaults under it were made, as a speculation by a dissenting minister named Howse. The burial-fees were small, and the place was resorted to by the poor, as many as nine or ten burials often taking place on a Sunday afternoon. The space available for coffins was, at the highest computation, 59 feet by 29 feet, with a depth of 6 feet, and no less than 20,000 coffins were deposited there. In order to accomplish this herculean task it was the common practice to burn the older coffins in the minister’s house, under his copper and in his fireplaces. Between the coffins and the floor of the chapel there was nothing but the boards. In time the effluvium in the chapel became intolerable, and no one attended the services, but the vaults were still used for interments, so that “more money was made from the dead than from the living”—a state of affairs which existed in many of the private burial-places of the metropolis. As I shall have to refer again to the condition of these grounds in speaking of the closing of graveyards in London, I will not enlarge upon it any further here, except to quote from the evidence brought before the Select Committee which sat in 1842 to consider the question of Interment in Towns, respecting the Globe Fields burial-ground in Mile End, which is merely one example out of sixty-five examinations. William Miller, called in and examined. “1615. CHAIRMAN. What is your occupation?—A jobbing, labouring man, when I can get anything to do.” “1616. Have you been a gravedigger in Globe Fields. Mile End?—Yes.” “1617. Is that a private burying-ground?—Yes.” “1618. To whom does it belong?—Mr. Thomas Tagg.” “1620. Have many pits been dug in it for the depositing of bodies previously interred?—Yes.” “1621. Where did they come from?—Out of the coffins which were emptied for others to go into the graves.” “1623. Were the coffins chucked in with them?—No; they were broken up and burnt.” “1624. Were they bones, or bodies, that were interred?—Yes; the bones and bodies as well.” “1625. Were they entire, or in a state of decomposition?—Some were dry bones, and some were perfect.” “1627. What did you do with them?—Chucked them into the pit.” “1628. What sort of pit?—A deep, square pit, about four feet wide and seven or eight feet deep.” “1629. How many bodies did you chuck in?—I cannot say, they were so numerous; each pit would hold about a dozen.” “1630. How many of these pits did you dig?—I suppose I dug a matter of 20 myself.” “1632. How near to the surface of the earth did these dead bodies or bones come?—Within about two feet.” “1638. What is the size of this ground?—It is rather better than half an acre.” “1639. How many bodies are buried in that ground within a year?—I cannot say; I suppose there are 14,000 have been buried in that ground.” “1640. How long has it been open?—Since the year 1820.”