[14]. Bligh’s 4th Parl. Reports, N. S. 194.
[15]. Vide Appendix No. 12 for examples of undertakers’ ordinary bills for funerals of different classes.
[16]. Vide Return in the Appendix.
[17]. Vide Appendix.
[18]. Vide General Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Population, p. 443 and p. 395, for proximate estimates of the chief structural expenses, i. e. main drains, house drains, annual supply of water, water tank, and water-closet, and means of cleansing, and also an exemplification of the practical rule for the distribution of the expense, so as to render it coincident to the benefit.
[19]. In all cases the mortuary registries of 1839 are referred to; but the data are varying, and are submitted, as they will be understood, only as proximate estimates. I have every reason to believe them to be on the whole below the truth.
[20]. A severe epidemic, by sweeping off the most susceptible cases, usually diminishes the proportionate mortality from that cause during the following year.
[21]. Vide District Returns, Appendix.
[22]. On a question of fact as to the effect of the common funeral arrangements on the imagination, the testimony of a poet, whose accuracy of description is universally admitted, may be cited. The Rev. Mr. Crabbe thus describes the effect of the funeral array:—
Lo! now what dismal sons of darkness come