Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain

About this eBook

Author

Chadwick, Edwin, 1800-1890

Title

A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns.

Credits

Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

RA: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine

Subject

Cemeteries -- Great Britain

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 54646

Release Date

May 2, 2017

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT ON THE RESULTS OF A SPECIAL INQUIRY INTO THE PRACTICE OF INTERMENT IN TOWNS. MADE AT THE REQUEST OF HER MAJESTY’S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT,
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.APPENDIX.
4. 4.INTERMENTS IN TOWNS. — Injuries to the Health of Survivors occasioned by the delay of Interments. — Expenses of Funerals and their effects on the Living. — Specific Effects of the Expenses of Funerals, and Associations to defray them amongst the Labouring Classes. — Total Expenses of Funerals to different Classes of Society. — Failure of the objects of the common Expenditure on Funerals. — Means of diminishing the evil of the retention of the Remains of the Dead amidst the Living. — Proposed Remedies by means of separate Parochial Establishments in Suburban Districts. — Practicability of ensuring for the Public superior Interments at reduced Expenses. — Examples of successful Legislation for the Improvement of the Practice of Interment. — Experience in respect to the sites of Places of Burial, and sanitary precautions necessary in respect to them. — Extent of Burial Grounds existing in the Metropolis. — Moral influence of seclusion from thronged places, and of decorative Improvements in National Cemeteries, and arrangements requisite for the satisfactory performance of Funeral Rites. — Necessity and nature of the superior agency requisite for private and public protection in respect to interments. — Jurisprudential value of the appointment of Officers of Health. — Advantages to Science from the Improvement of the Mortuary Registration. — Proximate Estimate of the comparative Expense of Interments under arrangements for National Cemeteries. — I. As to the Evils which require Remedies. — II. As to the Remedies available for the Prevention or Mitigation of these Evils.
5. 5.APPENDIX. — No. 1. REGULATIONS FOR PUBLIC INTERMENT AT FRANCKFORT, PASSED 1829. — Section I. — Section II. — The duties of the Cemetery Inspector. — Section III. — On the Interment Commissaries. — Section IV. — Of the Grave-diggers. — Section V. — The Regulations with regard to the House for the reception of the Dead. — No. 2. REGULATIONS FOR THE EXAMINATION AND CARE OF THE DEAD, AND FOR RELIEVING THE APPREHENSIONS OF PREMATURE INTERMENTS, PROVIDED AT MUNICH. — Regulations for the Examination of the Dead. — Regulations for the Guards or Watchers at the House for the reception of the Dead near the Burial Ground at Munich, with reference to the Inspection of Dead Bodies. — Regulations for the Proceedings at the Second Examination of the Corpses by the proper nominated Surgeon of the Police. — Instructions to the Soul-Nuns as to their Duties in regard to the Inspection of the Dead. — No. 3. DEFECTIVE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE VERIFICATION OF THE CAUSES OF DEATH. — Thomas Abraham , Esq., Surgeon. — No. 4. THE PROPORTIONS OF DEATHS AND FUNERALS PREVENTIBLE BY SANITARY MEANS. — Henry Blenkarne , Esq., South West District Surgeon of the City of London Union. — No. 5. — Dr. Wray , Medical Officer of the West London Union. — No. 6. — Mr. Thomas Porter , Surgeon to the St. Botolph’s Bishopsgate District. — No. 7. — Mr. John H. Paul , Surgeon, Medical Officer of the City of London Union. — No. 8. — Effects observed of Dark, Ill-ventilated, and Ill-drained Localities on the Moral and Physical Condition of the Population of Paris. — No. 9. NOTE TO PAGE 128, ON SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN’S PLAN FOR EXTRA MURAL INTERMENTS, AND FOR EXCLUDING GRAVEYARDS ON THE REBUILDING OF THE CITY OF LONDON. — No. 10. LETTER FROM THE TOWN CLERK OF STOCKPORT, ON INFANTICIDES COMMITTED PARTLY FOR THE SAKE OF BURIAL MONEY. — No. 11. A RETURN OF THE AVERAGE AGES AT WHICH DEATHS AND FUNERALS OCCURRED DURING THE YEAR 1839 TO THE SEVERAL CLASSES OF SOCIETY IN THE SEVERAL SUPERINTENDENT REGISTRARS’ DISTRICTS OF THE METROPOLIS. — No. 12. EXAMPLES OF ORDINARY UNDERTAKERS’ BILLS IN THE METROPOLIS. — Exposition of the English Law in respect to Perpetuities in Public Burial Grounds. — No. 13.
6. 6.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

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