Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain: A Supplementary Report on the Results of a Spiecal [sic] Inquiry Into the Practice of Interment in TownsClowes, 1843 - 279 páginas |
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Página 68 - ... is, that the party insuring had agreed to pay a sum of money year by year upon condition that in the event of his committing a capital felony, and being tried, convicted, and executed for that felony, his assignees shall receive a certain sum of money — is it possible that such a contract could be sustained? Is it not void upon the plainest principles of public policy?
Página 85 - One thousand eight hundred and forty , if any dead body shall continue unburied between the First day of May and the Thirty-first day of October...
Página 49 - ... array of a baronial funeral, the two men who stand at the doors being supposed to be the two porters of the castle, with their staves, in black; the man who heads the procession, wearing a scarf, being a representative of a herald-at-arms; the man who carries a plume of feathers on his head being an esquire, who bears the shield and casque, with its plume of feathers; the pall-bearers, with batons, being representatives of knights-companions-at-arms; the men walking with wands being supposed...
Página 27 - In the metropolis on spaces of ground which do not exceed 203 acres, closely surrounded by the abodes of the living, layer upon layer, each consisting of a population numerically equivalent to a large army of 20,000 adults, and nearly 30,000 youths and children, is every year imperfectly interred. Within the period of the existence of the present generation, upward of a million of dead must have been interred in these same spaces.
Página 270 - ... but it is not quite so easy to find the rule, which gives him the right of burying a large chest or trunk in company with himself. — That is no part of his original and absolute right, nor is it necessarily involved in it. — That right, strictly taken, is to be returned to his parent earth for dissolution, and to be carried thither in a decent and inoffensive manner.
Página 68 - ... sustained? Is it not void upon the plainest principles of public policy? Would not such a contract (if available) take away one of those restraints operating on the minds of men against the commission of crimes, namely, the interest we have in the welfare and prosperity of our connections?
Página 270 - With reference to them, the dmnus eeterna is a mere flourish of rhetoric ; the process of nature will speedily resolve them into an intimate mixture with their kindred dust ; and their dust will help to furnish a place of repose for other occupants in succession.
Página 168 - I could scarcely pass between them. In another house I attended fourteen patients : there were only two beds in the house. All the patients lay on the boards, and during their illness never had their clothes off. I met with many cases in similar conditions ; yet amidst the greatest destitution and want of domestic comfort, / have never heard, during the course of twelve years practice, a complaint of inconvenient accommodation.
Página 235 - By these means, the opportunity, in a great degree, was lost of making the new city the most magnificent as well as commodious for health and trade of any upon earth...
Página 167 - I had to walk on bricks across the floor to reach her bedside, as the floor itself was flooded with stagnant water. This is by no means an extraordinary case, for I have witnessed scenes equally wretched; and it is only necessary to go into Crosby-street, Freemasons...