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![Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0067887/full/600%2C/0/default.jpg)
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368 works
- Ephemera
Patent coffin : it is a well known fact, thay many hundred graves and vaults are constantly disturbed for the purpose of supplying the surgeons with subjects for dissection ...
Date: [1817?]- Ephemera
High Street, opposite all Saints Church, Colchester ... bought of L.J. Watts, (Late George Lufkin) stone & marble mason : tombs, monuments, head stones, brick craves, vaults and every description of cemetery work ...
Date: 1867- Ephemera
Singular discovery : [from a correspondent] ...
Date: [1840?]- Ephemera
Funeral of the Duke of Beaufort, at Badminton.
Date: [1853?]- Ephemera
"Coffin rappings" : the possibility of premature burial is a well-ascertained scientific fact, and I would recommend the perusal of Dr. Franz Hartmann's 1s. book on "Premature Burial" ...
Date: [1909?]