Burial outside the town: the cemetery reform in the Spanish Indies, 1787-1833

From 1787 the Spanish crown worked to move burial out of the churches of its American cities into ventilated cemeteries beyond the built-up area: asking the bishops what it would cost, sending a standard design in 1804, approving Havana's in 1807, authorising expropriation of land by 1833. Revillagigedo carried it into Veracruz and Puebla against what the compilation calls the ancient preoccupation and practice. Nuns kept the right to burial at home.