Functions of an officer of health exemplified in respect to the verification of the fact and cause of death, §§ 184 to 190—Nature of his intervention and aid to the survivors, and the reduction of the expenses of funerals, § 191—For the protection of the survivors on the occurrence of deaths from infectious or contagious disease, §§ 193 to 200—Evidence of the acceptability of the visits of such officers to the houses of the labouring classes for the purpose of mortuary registration, § 201 163 Jurisprudential value of the appointment of officers of health in the prevention of murders and secret deaths, §§ 202 to 204 171 Service in supplying the want of coroners’ inquests in Scotland, 174 Advantages to science from the improvement of the mortuary registration, § 209—to medical science from bringing classes of cases, or common effects from common causes, under one view, §§ 212 to 215 179 _Proximate Estimate of the Reductions in Funeral Expenses practicable under National arrangements._ Total expenses of funerals in the metropolis, § 219—Economy of few large and inefficient as compared with many small and efficient establishments, §§ 221 and 222—Expenses of an adequate staff’ of officers of health, §223 185 Daily number of deaths and funerals in the metropolis and in provincial towns, § 224 189 Claims of existing interests to compensation, §§ 228, 229, and 230 191 Why payment of fees and expenses at the time of the funerals proposed to be retained, §§ 233 and 234 193 Applicability of conclusions from the metropolis to the provincial towns, § 235 195 Summary of conclusions:— 1. As to the evils which require remedies, § 237 197 2. As to the means available for the prevention or mitigation of these evils, § 248 199 APPENDIX. PAGE 1. Regulations for the establishment of officers for the care of the dead and for conducting funerals at Franckfort, with plans of the houses of reception 205 2. Regulations for the examination and care of the dead at Munich 218 3. Examination of Mr. Abrahams, surgeon, registrar of deaths, on the defective arrangements for the verification, and on the effects produced on the physical and moral condition of children by the undue pressure of the causes of disease and death 223