Second report of the Royal Sanitary Commission.

  • Great Britain. Royal Sanitary Commission.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Second report of the Royal Sanitary Commission. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    $I«s>Q to inquire into and Report upon the operation of that part of the Registration System which relates to Certificates of Causes of Death. 9U30 to suggest improvements in all or any of the matters aforesaid, and means proper for carrying into effect the suggested improvements. =|^.0iU JtttObJ that We, reposing great trust and confidence in your knowledge and ability, have authorized and appointed, and do by these presents authorize and appoint you the said Charles Bowyer Adderley; Charles, Earl of Romney; Henry John, Earl of Ducie ; Robert Montagu (commonly called Lord Robert Montagu); Russell Gurney; Stephen Cave; Sir Thomas Watson; Charles Brisbane Ewart; John Robinson McClean; Samuel Whitbread ; John Tomlinson Hibbert; Evan Matthew Richards ; George Clive; Francis Sharp Powell; Benjamin Shaw; James Paget; Henry Wentworth Acland; Robert Christison; William Stokes; John Lambert; and Francis Thomas Bircham, to be Our Commissioners for the purposes aforesaid. 91nU for the better effecting the purposes of this Our Commission, We do by these presents give and grant to you, or any five or more of yTou, full power and authority to call before you, or any five or more of you, such persons as you shall judge necessary, by whom you may be the better informed of the truth on the subjects herein submitted to your consideration, and every matter connected therewith, and also to call for, have access to, and examine all such official books, documents, papers, and records, as may afford the fullest information on the subject of this Inquiry ; and to inquire of aud concerning the premises by all other lawful ways and means whatsoever. Slntl our further will and pleasure is that you, or any five or more of you, do report to us with all convenient speed, under your hands and seals, your opinion on the several matters herein submitted for your consideration, with power, from time to time to make a separate report in respect of any of the matters aforesaid on which it may seem expedient to you to so report: $ntl We do further will and command, and by these presents ordain, that this Our Commission shall continue in full force and virtue, and that you, Our said Commissioners, or any five or more of you, may from time to time proceed in the execution thereof, although the same be not continued from time to time by adjournment; $ntl for your assistance in the execution of these presents, We have made choice of Our trusty and well-beloved William Hornby Birley, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, to be Secretary to the said Commission, whose services and assistance We require you to use from time to time, as occasion may' require. Given at Our Court at St. James’s, the twentieth day of April 1869, in the Thirty- second Year of Our Reign. By Her Majesty’s Command, (Signed) H. A. BRUCE.