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A Report on the Practice of Interment in Towns

by Edwin Chadwick

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  1. 1Interments in Towns
  2. 2Injuries to the Health of Survivors Occasioned by the Delay of Inte…
  3. 3Specific Effects of the Expenses of Funerals, and Associations to D…
  4. 4Total Expenses of Funerals to Different Classes of Society
  5. 5Means of Diminishing the Evil of the Retention of the Remains of th…
  6. 6Proposed Remedies by Means of Separate Parochial Establishments in…
  7. 7Practicability of Ensuring for the Public Superior Interments at Re…
  8. 8Examples of Successful Legislation for the Improvement of the Pract…
  9. 9Experience in Respect to the Sites of Places of Burial, and Sanitar…
  10. 10Extent of Burial Grounds Existing in the Metropolis
  11. 11Necessity and Nature of the Superior Agency Requisite for Private a…
  12. 12Proximate Estimate of the Comparative Expense of Interments Under A…
  13. 13No. 1 — Regulations for Public Interment at Franckfort, Passed 1829
  14. 14No. 2 — Regulations for the Examination and Care of the Dead, and f…
  15. 15No. 3 — Defective Arrangements for the Verification of the Causes o…
  16. 16No. 4 — The Proportions of Deaths and Funerals Preventible by Sanit…
  17. 17No. 5 — Dr. Wray, Medical Officer of the West London Union
  18. 18No. 6 — Mr. Thomas Porter, Surgeon to the St. Botolph’s Bishopsgate…
  19. 19No. 7 — Mr. John H. Paul, Surgeon, Medical Officer of the City of L…
  20. 20No. 8 — Effects Observed of Dark, Ill-ventilated, and Ill-drained L…
  21. 21No. 9 — Note to Page 128, on Sir Christopher Wren’s Plan for Extra…
  22. 22No. 10 — Letter From the Town Clerk of Stockport, on Infanticides C…
  23. 23No. 11 — A Return of the Average Ages at Which Deaths and Funerals…
  24. 24No. 12 — Examples of Ordinary Undertakers’ Bills in the Metropolis
  25. 25No. 13

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