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REPORT ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF THE LABOURING POPULATION OF GREAT BRITAIN.
A
 SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT
 
 ON THE RESULTS OF A SPECIAL INQUIRY INTO
 
 THE
 
 PRACTICE OF INTERMENT IN TOWNS.
 
 MADE
 
 AT THE REQUEST OF HER MAJESTY’S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT,
BY
EDWIN CHADWICK, Esq.
BARRISTER AT LAW.
Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by Command of Her Majesty.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET,
FOR HER MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE.
1843.
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CONTENTS.
PAGE
 
Sources of information on which the Report is founded, § 11
 
Grounds of exception to the admitted necessities of the abolition of intra-mural interment examined, § 12
 
The evidence as to the innocuousness of emanations from human remains: negative evidence, § 24
 
The facts in respect to such alleged innocuousness incompletely stated, § 37
 
Positive evidence of the propagation of acute disease from putrid emanations, §§ 5 and 610
 
Specific disease communicated from human remains—positive instances of, §§ 8 and 1014
 
Distinct effects produced by emanations from bodies in a state of decay and from bodies in a state of putrefaction, § 1021
 
Summary of the evidence in respect to the sanitary question as to the essentially injurious nature of such emanations, &c., § 1123
 
Difficulty of tracing distinctly the specific effects of emanations from burial-grounds in crowded towns, amidst complications of other emanations, § 1323
 
Tainting of wells by emanations from burial-grounds, § 1424
 
Danger of injurious escapes of putrid eman                        
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