Death and dying ephemera. Box 1.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes leaflets etc. about hospices (Saint Christopher's Hospice, Sydenham, Help the Hospices, Richard House Children's Hospice, St. Teresa's Hospice, Darlington & District Hospice Movement), counseling services (Compass, Bereavement Care for the London Borough of Lewisham, Family careline), burial, funerals etc. (T. Rhys, undertakers, Ynistawe, Clydach). There are leaflets about death, disasters and accidents including: 'Lyst der dooden' (death statistics for Amsterdam, 1663, 1664), a prayer to San Francesco, protector from earthquakes (Italian, 18th century?), an orazione to Maria for protection from earthquakes (Giorgi Fabrifece, 1779), the Sorrowful and weeping Lamentation of the widows and orphans [following] the tremendous blowing up of the Canal Company's warehouse, et Nottingham (T. Bloomer, Birmingham - 1818), a Melancholy account of a female prostitute who died in a deplorable condition in the Saltmarket of Glasgow... 1824, a Full, true and particular record of a dreadful FIRE... at Miramichi, in America, October 7, 1825 (W. Abrams), Shipwreck: dreadful narrative (1826), a copy of the verses on the late DREADFUL FIRE in James Street, Lisson Grove (H. Such, Borough, London), Dreadful accident at Windsor, NINE persons drowned (T. Birt, Seven Dials, 1830), the dreadful EXPLOSION at Hounslow (Birt, Seven Dials - 1845), Suicide of the great enamelist, illustrated newspaper cuttings of the 'Terrible explosion of D'Ernest's fire-work manufactory, Monday, Feb. 28th [1842], Death of Antonio M.a Zaccaria (Rome, 1875?), four lives lost, tram car accident at Sowerby Bridge (1907), Hospiz der Barmherzigkeit für Unheilbare Kranke in Welchau. Leaflets for: National Council for hospice and specialist palliative care services, Brooklyn Board of Health record of deaths (1878), State of New Jersey death certificate signed by Henry Mitchell, medical superintendent (1902), King's College Hospital notice of death (1921), Home Office guide to the work of the coroner, a used booklet of 50 medical certificates of the cause of death (form 66, printed November 1962) with names, ages and causes of death (30.12.63 - 5.6.65 - in the Maldon area of Essex), receipt for the purchase of a grave in Chadderton Ground (Oldham Burial Board, 1866), Kendal Burial Board (1905), Kendal cemetary (1905), Alderley Edge Cemetery (1915), Kilmore and Kilbride Cemetery (1906), Tottenham Burial Board (1889), note on Funeral reform (Preston Herald, 1900), Church of England burial, funeral, and mourning reform association (1900), Sir Francis Seymour Haden on the disposal of the dead (1900), commemorative card (explosion in East End of London, January 19 1917), Poplar Hospital, James C. Broome, funeral director (Manchester - 1933), inquest report (1949), Ryde Burial Board (receipts and regulations - 1863 etc.), funeral receipt from White Brothers (Shanklin - 1922), Sandown cemetery (1946), 'The Times' card with notices of 6 deaths and one in memoriam, Co-Op Funerals, T. Rhys undertaker (Ynistawe, Clydach), Islington Council on cremation at Islington Crematorium, Society of Allied & Independent Funeral Directors, Golden Charter (arranging your funeral before you die), black bordered death notices (Mme A. Desgrais, Henry E. Sigerist, M.D., René Sand, Alexandre Jean Sichler, chemist, Dr. François Laurent Legendre, Alphonsine Duméril, Dr. Bernard Edouard Henri Joseph van den Corput and Dr. Jean Anne Henri Depaul), 2 books publishe by the Lisa Sainsbury Foundation (1990), 'Beat the rising cost of funerals' (Age Concern Guaranteed Funeral Plan : 2009).