Philadelphia cemetery law, 1898, continued
Continued:
Department of Public Safety
Bureau of Health Room No. 610, City Hall, Philadelphia April 26th, 1898
RESOLVED, That the burial of more than one body in a grave in the thickly inhabited and built-up portions of the city is hereby declared a nuisance having a tendency to be prejudicial to public health.
RESOLVED, That in the thickly inhabited and built-up portions of the city the burial of more than one body in a single grave, or the opening of a grave in which a body has been buried, for the purpose of additional interment, be and the same is hereby prohibited on and after June 1st, 1898.
RESOLVED, That the following cemeteries or burial grounds be and are hereby subject to the above orders (all sic):
Haines St. ME, Germantown Ave. and Haines St. (now closed)
Hanover, Hanover and Thompson streets
Hebrew, Spruce, below 9th streetHoly Comforter, 19th and Wharton streets
Holy Trinity, Passyunk and Washington avenues
Holy Trinity (1), 6th and Spruce streets
Holy Trinity (2), 5th and Spruce streets
Kensington (M. E.), Palmer street (see Hanover)
Lafayette, 10th and Wharton streets
Lebanon, Passyunk ave. and 18th street
Machpelah and M. E. Union, 10th street and Washington avenue
Market Square, Germantown avenue and Mill street (now Church Lane, Germantown)
Monument Cemetery, Broad and Berks streets
Mt. Zion, CHristian street east of 6th
Mutual Family, Washington avenue near 10th st.
Odd Fellows, 23rd and Norris streets
Olive Cemetery, Girard and Belmont avenues
Palmer Ground, Palmer and Belgrade streets
Paul Street M. E., Paul street, Frankford
Philadelphia Cemetery, Passyunk avenue, near 19th st.
Philanthropic Cemetery, Passyunk avenue and Tasker st.
Presbyterian Cemetery, Frankford
Ronaldson Cemetery, 9th and Bainbridge streets
Rose Cemetery, Ludlow street, below 41st street
St. Ann's (R.C.), Lehigh avenue and Memphis st.
St. Augustine's (R.C.), 4th below Vine street
St. John's (M. E.), 3rd below Beaver st.
St. Johns (R. C.), 13th above Chestnut st.
St. John's (R. C.), Manayunk
St. Joachim, Frankford Road and Pine street.
St. Joseph's (R. C.), 8th and Washington ave.
St. Luke's, 13th below Spruce street
St. Lukes's, Coulter steet, Germantown
St. Mary's (R. C.), 10th and Moore streets
St. Mary's (R. C.), 4th above Spruce street
St. Michael's, 2nd and Jefferson streets
St. Michael's Lutheran, Germantown ave. and Church street, now Phil-Ellena St.
St. Paul's 3rd below Walnut street
St. Paul's (M. E.), Christian above 6th street
St. Peter's, 3rd and Pine streets
St. Peter's (R. C.), Tioga and West (now Belgrad Street) streets
Swedes (P. E.), 931 Otsego street (now Swanson)
Third Presbyterian, 4th and Pine streets
Trinity (P. E.), Catharine below 3rd street
United Americn Mechanics, 22nd and Diamond street
Union Harmony Cemetery, Hanover street
Union Cemetery, 6th street and Washington avenue
Union Wesleyan, Hannover street
Wharton Street M. E., Wharton street below 4th street.
Gene Stackhouse