Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Public Health, Disease, Death, Chemistry, Religion, Religious Authority, Supernaturalism

    Responding to the evidence of the Bishop of London (Charles J Blomfield) given before the House of Lords committee on the Great Extramural Cemetery Bill, imagines that 'chemists—who are ghost-seers—for ghost and gas "are all one reckonings, save the phrase is a little variations"'—would see the bishop 'praying [...] against pestilence with the cause of it steaming up all around him in the shape of sulphuretted hydrogen' from corpses.