Instances of the common circumstances of their deaths; and of the deleterious effects of the prolonged retention of the body in the living and sleeping room, from the western districts of the metropolis, § 26—from the eastern districts, §§ 27 and 28—from Leeds, § 34 31 Numbers of deaths from epidemic, endemic, and contagious disease; and consequent extent of dangers from the undue retention of the body amidst the living, § 38 43 Moral evils produced by the practice, §§ 41 and 42 45 The delay of Interments amongst the Labouring Classes in part ascribable to the difficulty of raising excessive Funeral Expenses, § 40 45 Evidence of undertakers on the funeral expenses and modes of conducting the funerals of different classes of society, §§ 43 and 44 46 _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, §§ 56 and 57 55 Demoralizing effect of multiplied insurances for large payments for funeral expenses on the occurrence of deaths, §§ 60 and 61—Illegality of the practice. § 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, § 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 proportionate 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._