Anno secundo & tertio Gulielmi IV. regis, cap. LXXV : An Act for regulating Schools of Anatomy. [1st August 1832.].

  • Great Britain.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Anno secundo & tertio Gulielmi IV. regis, cap. LXXV : An Act for regulating Schools of Anatomy. [1st August 1832.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    such Salaries and Allowances to [be charged on the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, and to be payable quarterly ; and that an annual Return of all such Salaries and Allowances shall be made to Parliament. VII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any Executor or other Party having lawful Possession of the Body of any deceased Person, and not being an Undertaker or other Party intrusted with the Body for the Purpose only of Interment, to permit the Body of such deceased Person to undergo Anatomical Examination, unless, to the Knowledge of such Executor or other Party, such Person shall have expressed his Desire, either in Writing at any Time during his Life, or verbally in rhe Presence of Two or more Witnesses during the Illness whereof lie died, that his Body after Death might not undergo such Examination, or unless the surviving Husband or Wife, or any known Relative of the deceased Person, shall require the Body to be interred without such Examination. Persons hav¬ ing lawful Custody of Bodies may permit them to undergo Anatomical Examination in certain Cases. VIII. And be it enacted, That if any Person, either in Writing at any Time during his Life, or verbally in the Presence of Two or more Witnesses during the Illness whereof he died, shall direct that his Body after Death be examined anatomically, or shall nominate any Party by this Act authorized to examine Bodies anatomically to make such Examination, and if, before the Burial of the Body of such Person, such Direction or Nomination shall be made known to the Party having lawful Possession of the dead Body, then such last-mentioned Party shall direct such Examination to be made, and in case of any such Nomination as aforesaid, shall request and permit any Party so authorized and nominated as aforesaid to make sue!) Examination, unless the deceased Person’s surviving Husband or Wife, or nearest known Relative, or any One or more of such Person’s nearest known Relatives, being of Kin in the same Degree, shall require the Body to be interred without such Examination. Provision in case of Per¬ sons direct¬ ing Anato¬ mical Exami¬ nations after their Death. ertmeatc. IX. Provided always, and be it enacted, That in no Case shall the The Bcuy Bodv of any Person be removed for Anatomical Examination from I!0t t0 he re- any Piace where-such Person mav have died until after Forty-eight n,10C!! linn‘ Hours from the l ime of such Person’s Decease, nor until after Twenty- whcre such four Hours Notice, to be reckoned from the Time of such Decease, to Person may the Inspector of the District, of the intended Removal of the Body, l^vo Jie(1 or if no such Inspector have been appointed, to some Physician, Sur- )',ltll0Ut u geon, or Apothecary residing at or near the Piace of Death, nor in less a Certificate stating in what Manner such Person came by i;C Death shall previously to the Removal of the Body have been signed by the Physician, Surgeon, or Apothecary who attended such Person during the Illness whereof he died, or if no such Medical Man at- I- tended such Person during such Illness, then by some Physician, Sur¬ geon, or Apothecary who shall be called in after the Death of such Person to view his Body, and who shall state the Manner or Cause o' Death according to the best of his Knowledge and Belief, but who shal not be concerned in examining the Body after Removal : and that in case of such Removal sucli Certificate shall be delivered, togetiie* with