A supplementary report on the results of a spiecal (sic) inquiry into the practice of interment in towns made at the request of Her Majestys' Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, / by Edwin Chadwick.

  • Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners.
Date:
1843
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Credit: A supplementary report on the results of a spiecal (sic) inquiry into the practice of interment in towns made at the request of Her Majestys' Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, / by Edwin Chadwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. PAGE 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 ia 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 lite 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 conse- quent 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