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.

  • Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners.
Date:
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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    PACE Practicability of ensuring for the Public superior Interments at reduced Expenses. Evidence of undertakers as to the practicable reductions in the expenses of funerals without any reduction in proper solemnity, §§ 113 and 115 to 120. 107 Necessity of the provision of trustworthy responsible information to the sur- vivors at the time of deaths as to what is necessary and proper, 6{» 12]y 122, 123, and 124 113 Objections to the abandonment of the necessities of the population in respect to burial as a source of profit to private and irresponsible trading associa- tions, § 126 • . . . • . • • • • .114 Examples of successful Legislation for the improvement of tin practice of Interment. In America, 6, 127—in Germany, $ 128—Mode of protecting the public from extortionate charges in Prussia, o 129—Regulations of funerals and appli- cation of the proceeds to public purposes, § 131—Excessive numbers of deaths and funerals consequent on the low sanitary condition of the Parisian population, § 133 . . . . . • . .119 Agency of superior officers of public health employed to superintend interments in America, § 135—in Germany, h 136—Example of the inefficiency of the agency employed at Paris, 6 137—Consequences of mixing up private practice with public duties, § 138 ....... 125 Experience in respect to the Sites of Places of Burial and Sanitary Precautions necessary in respect to them. In regard to sites, § 140—to the time of the natural decay of bodies, § 143—to the depth of graves, 6 144—to the space for graves; and the greater extent of space requisite for the same numbers of a depressed town population than for a healthy rural population, § 145—Data for the spaces requisite for the burials arising from the deaths in the metropolis, § 146 to § 150 . 127 Why careful planting requisite for cemeteries, 151 and 152 . . , 131 Extent of Burial-grounds existing in the Metropolis. Summary of the extent of the burials by the chief religious communities, 8 155 —Disclaimer of private burial-grounds, 5 156—Extent of cemetery com- panies' estimates lor burials, o§ 157 and 158—-Diminution of public demand for burials in lead and in catacombs, 5 160—Dangers to the living of iII— regulated burials, and legislation on, § 162—Improvements in all existing material arrangements for burials practicable, o 164—Defective arrange- ments in private cemeteries, 65 165 and 166—Examples of improved cere- monial arrangements, 6§ 169and 171 133 Mural influence of seclusion from thronged places, and of Decorative Improvements in National Cemeteries. Statement by Mr. Wordsworth of the loss of salutary influence by burial in towns, § 172—Effects of careful visible arrangements cn the mental asso- ciations of the population stated, § 173—Examples of the influence of cemeteries on the continent, 174 and 175—Sir Christopher Wren's plan for the exclusion of intra-mural burying places on the rebuilding of the City of London, § 176—Practice of the primitive Christians to bury