A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns.

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1. 1A SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT ON THE RESULTS OF A SPECIAL INQUIRY INTO THE PRACTICE OF INTERMENT IN TOWNS. MADE AT THE REQUEST OF HER MAJESTY’S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT,
2. 2CONTENTS.
3. 3APPENDIX.
4. 4INTERMENTS IN TOWNS.
5. 5Injuries to the Health of Survivors occasioned by the delay of Interments.
6. 6Expenses of Funerals and their effects on the Living.
7. 7Specific Effects of the Expenses of Funerals, and Associations to defray them amongst the Labouring Classes.
8. 8Total Expenses of Funerals to different Classes of Society.
9. 9Failure of the objects of the common Expenditure on Funerals.
10. 10Means of diminishing the evil of the retention of the Remains of the Dead amidst the Living.
11. 11Proposed Remedies by means of separate Parochial Establishments in Suburban Districts.
12. 12Practicability of ensuring for the Public superior Interments at reduced Expenses.
13. 13Examples of successful Legislation for the Improvement of the Practice of Interment.
14. 14Experience in respect to the sites of Places of Burial, and sanitary precautions necessary in respect to them.
15. 15Extent of Burial Grounds existing in the Metropolis.
16. 16Moral influence of seclusion from thronged places, and of decorative Improvements in National Cemeteries, and arrangements requisite for the satisfactory performance of Funeral Rites.
17. 17Necessity and nature of the superior agency requisite for private and public protection in respect to interments.
18. 18Jurisprudential value of the appointment of Officers of Health.

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