A BURIAL HORROR.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14564, 15 January 1913, Page 10

A BURIAL HORROR.

GHOULISH DISCLOSURES AT HOBART.

BODIES ON RUBBISH HEAPS

(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright) HOBART, January 14.

A revolting stato of affairs, has been revealed at the Queensborough Cemetery.

A gravedigger who was dismissed mado a statement to tho Health Department and tho Press, in which ho alleges that it has been tho practico for a year past to remove coffins from graves in order to permit of fresh burials. Thero was no room to replaco the disinterred shells nor their gruesome contents, tho result being that they were piled ono upon another on rubbish heaps, and in some instances wero burat. On one occasion, in trying to find room for another coffin, a pick pierced th© lid of a shell, and was embedded in the' skull, which it brought from tho casket.

Dt. Sprott, in his report to the Board of Health, says that be has verified many ,of the gravediggcr's statements, more particularly regarding the inability to replace coffins after fresh burials. Ho had no hesitation in saying that tho method of disposing of the dead filled him with horror and amazement. It was a real danger to the public health.