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Sources of information on which the Report is founded, § 1[1]
Grounds of exception to the admitted necessities of the abolition of intra-mural interment examined, § 1[2]
The evidence as to the innocuousness of emanations from human remains: negative evidence, § 2[4]
The facts in respect to such alleged innocuousness incompletely stated, § 3[7]
Positive evidence of the propagation of acute disease from putrid emanations, §§ 5 and 6[10]
Specific disease communicated from human remains—positive instances of, §§ 8 and 10[14]
Distinct effects produced by emanations from bodies in a state of decay and from bodies in a state of putrefaction, § 10[21]
Summary of the evidence in respect to the sanitary question as to the essentially injurious nature of such emanations, &c., § 11[23]
Difficulty of tracing distinctly the specific effects of emanations from burial-grounds in crowded towns, amidst complications of other emanations, § 13[23]
Tainting of wells by emanations from burial-grounds, § 14[24]
Danger of injurious escapes of putrid emanations not obviated by deep burial, § 21[28]
General conclusions that all interments in churches or in towns are essentially of an injurious and dangerous tendency, § 23[30]
Injuries to the Health of Survivors occasioned by the delay of Interments.
The greatest proportion of deaths occur in the single rooms in which families live and sleep, § 25[31]
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]
Numbers of deaths from epidemic, endemic, and contagious disease; and consequent extent of dangers from the undue retention of the body amidst the living, § 38[43]
Moral evils produced by the practice, §§ 41 and 42[45]
The delay of Interments amongst the Labouring Classes in part ascribable to the difficulty of raising excessive Funeral Expenses, § 40[45]
Evidence of undertakers on the funeral expenses and modes of conducting the funerals of different classes of society, §§ 43 and 44[46]
Specific effects of excessive Funeral Expenses on the economy of the Labouring Classes.
Extent of pecuniary provision made in savings’ banks and benefit societies for funeral expenses, §§ 53 and 55—Abuse of the popular feeling of anxiety in respect to interments; and waste and distress occasioned to them, §§ 56 and 57[55]
Demoralizing effect of multiplied insurances for large payments for funeral expenses on the occurrence of deaths, §§ 60 and 61—Illegality of the practice. § 66—Case for interference for the prevention of crime, and measures for the reduction of the excessive expenses, §§ 69 and 71[63]
Aggregate Expenses of Funerals to the Public.
Small proportion of clerical burial dues to the undertaker’s expenses, § 74[69]
Heavy proportion of funeral expenses in unhealthy districts, § 75—Efficient sanitary measures the most efficient means of diminishing the miseries of frequent interments, § 81[71]
Failure of the objects of excessive expenditure on funerals—solemnity or proportionate impressiveness not obtained, § 84—and unattainable in crowded and busy districts, § 85—Increasing desertion of intra-mural burial-grounds, § 89[79]
Means of diminishing the evil of the prolonged retention of the Dead amidst the Living.
Obstacles to the early removal of the dead examined, § 89—Grounds for the apprehension of interment before life is extinct. § 90—Institution for the reception and care of the dead previous to interment formed in Germany, § 96—Success of, in abating the apprehensions of survivors, § 97—Practical evidence of the necessity of some such institution, and increasing use of inferior places for the same purpose in this country, §§ 101 and 10[84]
Proposed Remedies by the extension of separate Parochial Establishments in Suburban Districts examined.
Claims of the suburbs to protection from the undue multiplication of inferior burial-places in them, § 105[97]
Instance of the trial of suburban parochial burial-grounds for the parishes of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and St. James, Westminster, §§ 166 and 108[97]
Objections to the management of parochial boards stated by the Rev. William Stone, of Spitalfields, and others, § 109[100]
Increased expense from numerous small and inefficient establishments, § 110[104]
Unavoidable inefficiency of management by, § 111[105]
Grounds for the conclusion that such establishments would ultimately rather extend than abate the evil, § 112[106]
Practicability of ensuring for the Public superior Interments at reduced Expenses.
Evidence of undertakers as to the practicable reductions in the expenses of funerals without any reduction in proper solemnity, §§ 113 and 115 to 120[107]
Necessity of the provision of trustworthy responsible information to the survivors at the time of deaths as to what is necessary and proper, §§ 121, 122, 123, and 124[113]
Objections to the abandonment of the necessities of the population in respect to burial as a source of profit to private and irresponsible trading associations, § 126[114]
Examples of successful Legislation for the improvement of the practice of Interment.
In America, § 127—in Germany, § 128—Mode of protecting the public from extortionate charges in Prussia, § 129—Regulations of funerals and application of the proceeds to public purposes, § 131—Excessive numbers of deaths and funerals consequent on the low sanitary condition of the Parisian population, § 133[119]
Agency of superior officers of public health employed to superintend interments in America, § 135—in Germany, § 136—Example of the inefficiency of the agency employed at Paris, § 137—Consequences of mixing up private practice with public duties, § 138[125]
Experience in respect to the Sites of Places of Burial and Sanitary Precautions necessary in respect to them.
In regard to sites, § 140—to the time of the natural decay of bodies, § 143—to the depth of graves, § 144—to the space for graves; and the greater extent of space requisite for the same numbers of a depressed town population than for a healthy rural population, § 145—Data for the spaces requisite for the burials arising from the deaths in the metropolis, § 146 to § 150[127]
Why careful planting requisite for cemeteries, §§ 151 and 152[131]
Extent of Burial-grounds existing in the Metropolis.
Summary of the extent of the burials by the chief religious communities, § 155—Disclaimer of private burial-grounds, § 156—Extent of cemetery companies’ estimates for burials, §§ 157 and 158—Diminution of public demand for burials in lead and in catacombs, § 160—Dangers to the living of ill-regulated burials, and legislation on, § 162—Improvements in all existing material arrangements for burials practicable. § 164—Defective arrangements in private cemeteries, §§ 165 and 166—Examples of improved ceremonial arrangements, §§ 169 and 171[133]
Moral influence of seclusion from thronged places, and of Decorative Improvements in National Cemeteries.
Statement by Mr. Wordsworth of the loss of salutary influence by burial in towns, § 172—Effects of careful visible arrangements on the mental associations of the population stated, § 173—Examples of the influence of cemeteries on the continent, §§ 174 and 175—Sir Christopher Wren’s plan for the exclusion of intra-mural burying places on the rebuilding of the City of London, § 176—Practice of the primitive Christians to bury outside cities, § 177[172]
Superior agency of the clerici employed in burial: and a special agency of public officers of health instituted in the east, § 177[148]
Opinion of the Rev. H. H. Milman on the means of the re-investment of the funeral services with religious influences[150]
Dispositions manifested in this respect amongst the lower classes, § 178 to 181[153]
The duties in respect to honouring the dead, as stated by Jeremy Taylor[157]
Necessity and nature of the superior Agency requisite for private and public protection in respect to Interments.
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]