A supplementary report on the results of a spiecal (sic) inquiry into the practice of interment in towns made at the request of Her Majestys' Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, / by Edwin Chadwick.

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1843
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Credit: A supplementary report on the results of a spiecal (sic) inquiry into the practice of interment in towns made at the request of Her Majestys' Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, / by Edwin Chadwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. PA OH The delay of Interment* amongst the Labouring Classes in part ascribable to the difficultyof raising excessive Funeral Expenses, § 40 . . . .45 Evidence of undertakers on the funeral expenses and modes of conducting the tunerals of different classes of society, §§ 43 and 44 . . , . 40 Specific effects of excessive Funeral Expenses on the economy of the Labouring Classes. Extent of pecuniary provision made in savings' banks and benefit societies for funeral expenses, 53 and 55—Abuse of the popular feeling of anxiety in respect to interments ; and waste and distress occasioned to them, &§ 50 57 * . 55 Demoralizing effect of multiplied insurances for large payments for funeral ex- penses on the occurrence of deaths, ft§ 60 and 61—Illegality of the prac- tice, § 66—Case for interference for the prevention of crime, and measures for the reduction of the excessive expenses, 69 and 71 . . 63 -Aggregate Expenses of Funerals to the Public. Small proportion of clerical burial dues to the undertaker's expenses, 5 74 .69 Heavy proportion of funeral expenses in unhealthy districts, § 75—Efficient sanitary measures the most efficient means of diminishing the miseries of frequent interments, § 81 . . 71 Failure of the objects of excessive expenditure on funerals—solemnity or pro- portionate impressiveness not obtained, § 84—and unattainable in crowded and busy districts, § 85—Increasing desertion of intra-mural burial- grounds, § 89 79 Means of diminishing the evil of the prolonged retention of the Dead amidst the Living. Obstacles to the early removal of the dead examined, § 89—Grounds for the apprehension of interment before life is extinct, 5 90—Institution for the reception and -care of the dead previous to interment formed in Germany, § 96—Success of, in abating the apprehensions of survivors. § 97—Prac- tical evidence of the necessity of some such institution, and increasing use of inferior places for the tame purpose in this country, 101 and 102 . 84 Proposed Remedies by the extension of separate Parochial Establishments in Suburban Districts examined. Claims of the suburbs to protection from the undue multiplication of inferior burial-places in them, § 105 . . . . . . .97 Instance of the trial of suburban parochial burial-grounds for the parishes of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and St. James, Westminster, 106 and 108 . 97 Objections to the management of parochial boards stated by the Rev. William Stone, of Spitalfields, and others, § 109 ...... 100 ncreased expense from numerous small and inefficient establishments, h 110 . 104 Unavoidable inefficiency of management by, § 111 ..... 105 Grounds for the conclusion that such establishments would ultimately rather extend than abate the evil, $ 112 106
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