§ 117. Mr. Wild gives, on similar grounds, the following estimate of the practicable rates of expenses of interment with all decent appliances:— ─────────┬───────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────── │ Tradespeople. │ Mechanics. ─────────┼───────────────┬───────────────┼───────────────┬─────────────── │ Adults. │ Children. │ Adults. │ Children. ─────────┼───────┬───────┼───────┬───────┼───────┬───────┼───────┬─────── │ From. │ To. │ From. │ To. │ From. │ To. │ From. │ To. ─────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼─────── │£. _s._│£. _s._│£. _s._│£. _s._│£. _s._│£. _s._│£. _s._│£. _s._ Coffin │ 1 5│ 4 4│ 0 15│ 1 10│ 0 17│ 1 5│ 0 10│ 0 15 Fittings,│ 0 15│ 2 0│ 0 10│ 1 0│ 0 10│ 0 15│ 0 5│ 0 10 &c. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Sundries │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Convey- │ 1 1│ 4 4│ 1 1│ 2 2│ 0 17│ 1 1│ 0 10│ 1 1 ance │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ─────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼─────── Totals │ 3 1│10 8│ 2 6│ 4 12│ 2 4│ 3 1│ 1 5│ 2 6 ─────────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴─────── § 118. Next to the arrangements practicable for the regulation of the supplies of goods, the most important practicable arrangements for reduction of expense are those which may regulate the services necessary for interments. The item set forth in the above estimate of the charge for conveyance is on the supposition of separate conveyance in the present mode to the distant cemetery. With reference to the charge for the poorer classes, Mr. Wild was asked— Might not several sets of mourners be carried in one conveyance?—Yes; that has often occurred to me, and it would tend to reduce the expense materially. When two or three children have died in one street, and they have had to be buried in the same cemetery, I have asked the parents whether, as they had to go to the same place, they objected to go in the same conveyance, and they have frequently stated that they had no objections. These were of the more respectable classes of mechanics. In the fittings up of the coffins, is it considered that these would be as good as those now used?—Quite as good.