A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. — John Shaqi
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
4. Examination of Mr. Blencarne, medical officer of the City
of London Union, on the extent to which the proportions
of deaths are preventive by sanitary measures 226
5, 6, Extracts from the testimony of Dr. Wray, Mr. Porter, and
& 7. Mr. Paul, medical officers of the city of London, on the
same subjects 229–32
8. Extract from Dr. La Chaise’s account of population in the
badly lighted and ventilated and badly cleansed
districts of Paris 233
9. Note on the probable effects producible on the
proportionate mortality and numbers of burials, of
structural arrangements, such as those designed for the
City of London by Sir Christopher Wren 234
10. Letter from the superintendent registrar of Stockport on
cases of infanticides committed partly for the sake of
burial money 235
11. Returns of the proportion of deaths to the population in
each registrar’s district in the metropolis in the year
1839, the excess in number of deaths and funerals beyond
a healthy standard, the average age of death of gentry,
tradesmen, and artisans, and average years of life lost
by premature deaths in each district, according to the
Carlisle table of life insurance, and the proportion of
deaths from epidemics, and the registrars’ returns of
the chief causes of death in the lower districts 239
12. Examples of ordinary undertakers’ bills in the metropolis 267
Lord Stowell’s exposition of the law of England in respect
to perpetuities in burial-grounds 269
13. View of the extent of intra-mural burial-ground provided
as compared with the extent of extra-mural burial-ground
required for the metropolis; and the comparative
proportions of space occupied for the burial of persons
of different religious denominations, and as trading
burial-grounds 272
Return of the amount of burial fees received in some of
the larger parishes in the metropolis 273
Returns of the number of burials in each of the
burial-grounds in the metropolis 274
SANITARY REPORT.—SUPPLEMENT.
INTERMENTS IN TOWNS.
_To the Right Honourable Sir James Graham, Bart.,
&c., &c., &c._
SIR,
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