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    and constantly relieves more than eighteen hundred ; and that of Delta S ? na Annunziata ^ which is immensely rich , and destined to receive foundlings penitent femstes , &c and said sometimes to harbour two thousand . To each

    belong , in the first place a villa , and in the second , a cemetery . The villa of the first is situated at Torre del Greco , and is destined for the benefit of convalescents ,

    add such as labour under distempers that require tree air and exercise . A similar rural retreat ought to belong to every great hospital established in large cities , v ^ ic re hall the distempers to which the poorer class are liable , arise

    from constant confinement , and tfie want of pure air * The cetttetry is in a different way , of at least eqtiaJ advantage to public health . It was apprehended , and iiot without reason , that so many bodies as must be carried out from

    all hospital , especially in unhealthy seasons , might if deposited in any church or church-yard within the city , infect the air or propagate contagious diseases . To prevent such evils , the sum of

    forty-eight thousand five hundred ducats , raised by voluntary contribution was laid out in pur . chasing and fitting tip for the purnose a field about half a mite from

    die walls of the city , on a rising ground . A little neat church is annexed to it , with apartments for the officiating clergy and the

    persons attached to the service of the cemetery , and the road that winds up the hill to it is lined with cypresses . The burial ground is divided into three hundred and

    sixty-six large and deep vaults , one of which is opened every day in the year , and the bodies to to

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    interred deposited in order . These vaults are cbvered with flag * of lava that fit exactly , and completely close every aperture . The bodies are carried out at niffht

    time , by persons appointed for the purpose , and every precaution taken to prevent even the slightest chance of infection , All is done

    gratis * and tue expenses requisite supplied by public charity . It is to be regretted fhat this method of burying has not been adopted

    in every hospital and parish in Naples , and indeed in every town and city , not in Italy only , but all over Europe . It is really famentable that a practice so

    disgusting , not to say so pernicious , as thai of heaping up putrid carcases in churches , where the air is necessarily confined , and ih

    church-yards , in cities * where it cannot have a free circulation ft * should be so long and so obstinately retained . It would be diife fitult to discover orte single at **

    gu merit , drawn either from the principles of religion or the dictates of reason , in its favour , whrte its inconveniences and mischiefs are visible and almost tangible * ( P . 497—500 . )

    One remark more upon tBe = Neapolitan hospital * , and I dro p the subject . When a patient liis recovered his health and strengdr and is about to return to bis usuaf

    occupations , he receives from the * establishment a sum of money * sufficient to compensate for ih& loss of time and labour unavoidable during his illness ; a most benevolent custom , and higlily worthy of imitation . A long ill-, ness or dangerous accident

    deprives a poor labourer or artisan so long of his ordinary wages , and throws him so far back in his Jiu

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    Charitable Institutions at Naples .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1814, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2436/page/14/