"Sheffield."
[PARISH REGISTERS (1818).]
Source.—The London Medical Repository, Vol. X. p. 267.
George Man Burrows on Parish Registers.
But I must reiterate, that it will be a work of supererogation to offer either remarks or proposals for establishing improved registers of marriages, births, baptisms, burials, diseases, &c. or for attaining any of the other objects upon which I have dilated, unless all denominations of religion in the whole of the united kingdom be included.
On recapitulation, it appears that the principal defects in the present system are:
1. Registers of marriages, births, baptisms, and burials, or bills of mortality are not kept in every place of religious worship; nor in hospitals and infirmaries having private burying-grounds.
2. Children who die unbaptized are not entered in any register or bill of mortality.
3. Registers of baptism do not set forth the place and date of birth.