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Title: The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six. A picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Gilman, Arthur, 1837-1909
Subjects: Cambridge (Mass.) Cambridge (Mass.) -- History
Publisher: Cambridge, Riverside press
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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o be true, that for every person that dies two otherpersons will be constantly sick throughout the year. It is amatter, therefore, of the greatest consequence that a city shouldbe able to offer the best possible conditions of health, in orderto attract new citizens. The city has now a satisfactory system of sewerage — a watersupply that is free from serious pollution, and a reasonable provi-sion of open spaces, — a hospital for contagious diseases in con-nection with the Cambridge Hospital, and a Board of Healthwhich has been in existence for nearly twenty years. Underall these favoring influences the city has made a record inhealthfulness of which she may well feel proud, for she stoodat the head of the list of thirty-one registration cities whichwere selected for comparison from the whole country in theTenth Census of the United States. In that year there died inCambridge only 17.46 persons for 1,000 living, — a rate notequaled by any city of 50,000 inhabitants in the country.
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BURIAL-PLACES IN CAMBRIDGE. By GEORGE S. SAUNDERS, CHAIRMAN OF THE CAMBRIDGE CEMETERY COMMISSIONERS. Go where the ancient pathway guides. See where our sires laid downTheir smiling babes, their cherished brides, The patriarchs of the town;Hast thou a tear for buried love ? A sigh for transient power ?All that a century left above, Go, — read it in an hour! O. W. Holmes. As early as 1634-35, one John Pratt was granted two acresof land, described as situated By the old Burying Place with-out the common pales. This deed indicates the first land usedfor burials, which was located, as nearly as can be ascertained,on the northerly corner of the present Ash and Brattle streets,outside of the stockade which was erected in 1632. Rev. AbielHolmes, D. D., wrote in the year 1800, that .£60 was levied3d February, 1632, towards making a Palisado about the NewTowne. This was actually made, and the fosse which was thendug is in some places visible to this day. It enclosed above onethousand acres.

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