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
Obstacles to the early removal of the dead examined, § 89—Grounds
for the apprehension of interment before life is extinct. §
90—Institution for the reception and care of the dead previous
to interment formed in Germany, § 96—Success of, in abating the
apprehensions of survivors, § 97—Practical evidence of the
necessity of some such institution, and increasing use of
inferior places for the same purpose in this country, §§ 101 and
10 84
_Proposed Remedies by the extension of separate Parochial
Establishments in Suburban Districts examined._
Claims of the suburbs to protection from the undue multiplication
of inferior burial-places in them, § 105 97
Instance of the trial of suburban parochial burial-grounds for the
parishes of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and St. James, Westminster,
§§ 166 and 108 97
Objections to the management of parochial boards stated by the
Rev. William Stone, of Spitalfields, and others, § 109 100
Increased expense from numerous small and inefficient
establishments, § 110 104
Unavoidable inefficiency of management by, § 111 105
Grounds for the conclusion that such establishments would
ultimately rather extend than abate the evil, § 112 106
_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 survivors at the time of deaths as to what is necessary
and proper, §§ 121, 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 associations, § 126 114
_Examples of successful Legislation for the improvement of the
practice of Interment._
In America, § 127—in Germany, § 128—Mode of protecting the public
from extortionate charges in Prussia, § 129—Regulations of
funerals and application 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, §
136—Example of the inefficiency of the agency employed at Paris,
§ 137—Consequences of mixing up private practice with public
duties, § 138 125
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