A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns.Chadwick, Edwin
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A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns.
Chadwick, Edwin
Burial; Cemeteries -- Great Britain; Mortality -- Statistics; Public health -- Great Britain; Working class -- Great Britain
(15.) The inspector must also inspect the family vaults, graves, and
monuments, and keep a book, in which he enters statements of any repairs
which may be necessary, and a notification of this is immediately to be
sent to the Church and Cemetery Commission, without whose permission no
alteration can be made in the graves.
(16.) The inspector has also the superintendence of the house of
reception.
(17.) It is the duty of the inspector to treat all who have to apply to
him with politeness and respect, and to give the required information
unweariedly and with ready good will.
Under no pretext is he allowed either to demand or receive any payment,
as he has a sufficient salary.
SECTION III.—_On the Interment Commissaries._
(18.) On the motion of the Church and Cemetery Commission, the
Consistory names four Interment Commissaries for the Lutheran community.
For the reformed church in Franckfort two Interment Commissaries are
chosen by the reformed consistory from those proposed by the Church and
Cemetery Commission. Amongst those persons proposed by this commission,
there must be included not only the present clergymen of the two
reformed communities, but the clergyman at all times must be proposed.
The Catholic has also an Interment Commissary, chosen by the Church and
School Commission from those proposed by the Church and Cemetery
Commission.
The list proposed for every such appointment must include, at least,
three burghers, fit to fill the situation.
The appointment is given during good behaviour, and the commissary must
take an oath that he will truly and exactly follow the regulations, and
that he feels it his duty to perform all these and any other particular
instructions which he may receive.
(19.) To each of the three Interment Commissaries of the Lutheran
community four districts are given, in which they must superintend all
that has to be done from the death to the interment in their community.
The two Reformed commissaries, as well as the Catholic, have to take
care of everything connected with interment in their communities.
(20.) In order that illness or any other unavoidable obstacle may not
easily interfere with the function of these commissaries, two Lutheran,
one Reformed, and one Catholic commissaries, shall be appointed as
substitutes, and shall have the same duties and obligations as their
superiors.
(21.) These commissaries must notify to each other at what hour they
have an interment in charge, in order that many interments at the same
time may be avoided.
(22.) The commissary is to be informed immediately as soon as a death
has occurred. Thereon the commissary acquaints the family of the
deceased with all that is to be done or observed with regard to the
interment.
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