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
The whole rates could only be made so moderate, by making all interments
to depend on the Church and Cemetery Commission, therefore the
solemnities of interment can be superintended by no one except the said
Commission, under the regulation of the printed orders.
The Interment Commissioner, on the occasion of a death, must call the
attention of the friends to these orders. It depends entirely on the
choice of the friends to which of the four classes of prices the funeral
shall belong.
(39.) The Commission of Interments has to receive the payment for the
interment from the friends, and must immediately pay it over to the
Church and Cemetery Commission.
(40.) Besides, or in addition to the authorized payment printed in the
tax roll, and determined by the Church and Cemetery Commission as the
sufficient remuneration of the Inspector, Commissioner of Interments,
the bearers and sextons, no one is, on the occasion of a death, either
to give money or to furnish food and drink.
The practice of furnishing crape, gloves, lemons, &c., by the friends of
the dead, is also given up, and the persons engaged in conducting the
interment, must take all the requisites with them, without asking or
receiving any compensation, under pain of instant dismissal.
_The time which these orders are to remain in force._
(41.) Experience will best show what alteration is necessary in these
regulations, and they are therefore after some years to be laid by the
mixed Church and School Commission before the Senate for revision, and
further regulation.
_The rate of Interment for the Christian communities of the free town of
Franckfort._
The following, by order of the Legislative Assembly, of the 31st May,
1836, is the table of the rate of interment, which is here made known
for every one’s observance and obedience.
The interments of adults are divided into four classes:—
English Money.
£. _s._ _d._
The 1st class costs 50 florins = 4 7 6
The 2nd class costs 36 florins = 3 3 0
The 3rd class costs 22 florins = 1 18 6
The 4th class costs 15 florins = 1 6 3
The interment of children are also of four classes:—
_First Class._ English Money.
£. _s._ _d._
Children from 10 to 15 22 florins = 1 18 6
Children from 5 to 10 16 florins = 1 8 0
Children from 0 to 5 12 florins = 1 1 0
_Second Class._
Children from 10 to 15 16 florins = 1 8 0
Children from 5 to 10 11 florins = 0 19 3
Children from 0 to 5 8 florins = 0 14 0
_Third Class._
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