text:  The carrying forth the dead naked and uncoffined in open carts is an image often presented to us in descriptions of this nature; but it is perhaps surpassed in terrible effects by the one here offered to us of the bodies of those who had died of the cholera piled up in carts and tumbrils in coffins so hastily and slightly constructed that as they rattled over the stones there was constant danger of their horrible contents being poured upon the pavement