Category: History - British
Instances of the common circumstances of their deaths; and of the deleterious effects of the prolonged retention of the body in the living and sleeping room, from the western districts of the metropolis, § 26—from the eastern districts, §§ 27 and 28—from Leeds, § 34 31
A third case occurred a few days ago. A medical certificate was presented to me of the death of a man from disease of the heart and aneurism of the aorta. He was driven in a cab...
7. Part 7In January, 1837, a man named Clark, in George Gardens, in this parish, having been kept a considerable length of time unburied (I was informed beyond a fortnight), I was direct...
24. Part 24§ 188. It is admitted that some additional arrangements are yet wanting for the complete attainment of the proper civic and technical purposes of registration:—as depositaries o...
25. Part 25§ 200. The principle of this part of the proposed arrangement is in necessitating visits of inspection, and thence necessitating the initiation of measures of relief where there...
5. Part 5§ 13. Such being the nature of the emanations from human remains in a state of decomposition, or in a state of corruption, the obtainment of any definite or proximate evidence o...
33. Part 33(13.) The Cemetery Inspector is not specially paid for his services in the house of reception, but has a house free, besides the salary determined by the Cemetery Commission, an...
32. Part 32He has further to see that on the part of the sextons, or the gardeners, the neatness of the paths of the cemetery is restored after interments, as also that of the plantations...
37. Part 37The Carlisle table is taken as the standard for the duration of life, to measure the loss of life in the several districts, as it gives the probability of life from infancy, wel...
3. Part 3§ 5. So far as observations have been made on the point (and the more those reported upon it are scrutinized, the less trustworthy they appear to be), workmen so exposed do not...
15. Part 15§ 101. It is only submitted that suitable accommodation should be provided for the removal and care of bodies, and given, as it would be, as a boon. Confident statements are fre...
16. Part 16A local board would be less likely to possess the confidence of the people. Indeed, it would be exposed to the influence of personal interest and local partialities; and still m...
14. Part 14A midwife of the commune of Paulhan (Hérault) was believed to be dead and was put in a coffin. At the expiration of twenty-four hours she was carried to the church and from then...
22. Part 22§ 175. A review of the circumstances influencing the public feeling, and of the tendencies marked by the recent changes of practice in this country, and of the effects of the pu...
9. Part 9What is the cost of porters, the men who bear staves covered with black?—The cost of the mutes varies from 18_s._ to 30_s._ In some cases of respectable persons, where silk scar...
13. Part 13§ 85. Few persons can have witnessed funeral processions passing in mid-day through the thronged and busy streets of the metropolis, without being struck with the extreme inappr...
31. Part 31In a paper read on the 2nd January last before the Academy of Sciences at Paris, by M. le Baron Charles Dupin, on the increase of savings’ banks and their influence on the Paris...
36. Part 36Whosoever examines the various modern plans for the improvement of the metropolis, and compares them with the plan of the architect of St. Paul’s, will see in them only small ap...
20. Part 20§ 148. On such data as have been obtained, the distance of a cemetery ought to vary according to its size, or the number of the population for whom burial is required. The cemet...
23. Part 23One further practical suggestion occurs to me as likely most materially to diminish the expenditure of funerals of all classes, and therefore to render any great scheme more fea...
26. Part 26A similar practice appears to be prevalent also in the mining districts of Staffordshire and Shropshire. (Vide Reports of the Sub-Commissioners for inquiring into employment in...
12. Part 12The above, which can only be submitted as a proximate estimate, certainly shows an amount of money annually thrown into the grave, at the expense of the living, which exceeded a...
4. Part 4George Higinbottom, an undertaker, was employed to remove in a shell the corpse of a woman who had died of typhus fever in the London Fever Hospital. In conveying the body from...
19. Part 19§ 137. In Paris some cases have of late occurred, which have created much public uneasiness by the evidence they afforded of the defective organization of the service of the off...
10. Part 10It is, I may observe, no uncommon practice for parties to leave deposits in their names, about the amount I have stated, for the very purpose of providing for the expenses of th...
11. Part 11§ 60. The exercise, on the parts of the lowest classes, of the feeling, in itself so laudable and apparently susceptible of great moral good, under proper guidance, has, in thos...
17. Part 17§ 114. These manifestations are ascribable to a consciousness of the incompatibility of funereal displays through the crowded streets of populous districts, and are consistent w...
18. Part 18It may be thought that, in alluding to these private burial grounds, I have expressed myself strongly, and indeed I am not anxious to disavow having done so. The subject seems t...
29. Part 29§ 235. The conclusions before stated are deduced principally from the facts obtained by inquiries in the metropolis and the chief towns in the manufacturing districts. The infor...
8. Part 8───────────┬─────────────────────┬───────┬─────────┬─────────┬───────── │ │ │ │Ratio of │ │ │ Ratio │Number of│ Deaths │ Average │ │ of │ Deaths │ from │ Age at │ │Deaths │ from...
6. Part 6§ 22. He also expresses an opinion concurrent with that of other physiologists, that the effects of these escapes in an otherwise salubrious locality, soon attract notice, but t...
48. Part 48Mr. Worrell, the Registrar of the Gray’s Inn-lane District:—“To ascertain and compare the healthy with the unhealthy parts of my district, I have placed against each street the...
27. Part 27Perhaps in no manufacturing community is human life, in large classes of men, so shortened or accompanied with such an amount of suffering or wretchedness as in this town, in co...
21. Part 21§ 165. It has been mentioned as an objection entertained in Germany to the use of clayey soils, on the ground that they retain the gases, and prevent that regular access of air...
2. Part 2In stating the opinion that putrefaction singly does not occasion malarious disease, we do not mean to affirm that air highly charged with putrid miasmata may not, in some cases...
28. Part 28Ten officers, visiting fifteen cases per diem, would suffice to take order such as described, for the burial of 45,000 persons. They will also be enabled in upwards of 8,000 cas...
1. Part 1Instances of the common circumstances of their deaths; and of the deleterious effects of the prolonged retention of the body in the living and sleeping room, from the western di...
35. Part 35You have read what is stated by Mr. Blencarne, and by Mr. Abrahams—do you generally agree with them as to the effects of defective cleansing, on the condition of the population?...
47. Part 47┌───────────────────────────────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬─────────┐ │ │Estimated│ Annual │ No. of │ │ PLACES OF BURIAL. │Extent in│Number of│ Burials │ │ │ Sq. │Burials. │pe...
40. Part 40Where the pressure of the causes of mortality is the greatest; where the average age of death is the lowest, and the duration of life is the shortest, there the increase of popu...
45. Part 45No. 1. £. _s._ _d._ Elm coffin, lined, ruffled, mattrass, sheet, and pillow 3 11 0 Leaden coffin, plate of inscription, 5 men with ditto 6 15 0 Outside case, brass engraved plat...
30. Part 30In the course of some inquiries which I made with Professor Owen, when examining a slaughterman as to the effects of the effluvia of animal remains on himself and family, some o...
38. Part 38So far as I have been enabled to observe or collect from the extremely imperfect data at present available to the public service, the line of the average ages of the living is c...
46. Part 46┌────────────────┬────────────┬────────────┬─────────────┬────────────┐ │ PARISHES. │ Amount of │ Amount of │ Average │ │ │ │Burial Fees │Burial Fees │Burial Fees, │Average Fee...
42. Part 42──────────────────┬───────────┬─────────────────────── │ │ │ │ │ │ Number of Deaths of District. │ Class. │ each Class. │ │ │ │ │ │ ──────────────────┼───────────┼───────┬──────...
39. Part 39┌─────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ LEINSTER. │ ├─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┬───────────────────┤ │ │ RURAL. │ TOWN...
43. Part 43──────────────────┬─────────┬───────┬───────── │ │Average│ │ │Age at │ Average │ Deaths │ Death │ Age at District. │ from │of all │ Death, │Epidemic.│who die│including │ │ above...
41. Part 41United States of England and Wales. America. Under 5 years 1744 1324 5 and under 10 1417 1197 10 and under 15 1210 1089 15 and under 20 1091 997 20 and under 30 1816 1780 30 and...
44. Part 44──────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────────┬───────── │ │ │Excess in │ │Proportionate│Number of │Years’ Average │ Number of │ Deaths District. │premature loss │ Deaths to │...
49. Part 49Mr. James Murray, the Registrar of the Hackney-road District, in answer to the question, In what parts of your district, has the number of deaths registered in the years 1838, 1...