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| Sources of information on which the Report is founded, § 1 | 1 |
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| Grounds of exception to the admitted necessities of the abolition of intra-mural interment examined, § 1 | 2 |
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| The evidence as to the innocuousness of emanations from human remains: negative evidence, § 2 | 4 |
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| The facts in respect to such alleged innocuousness incompletely stated, § 3 | 7 |
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| Positive evidence of the propagation of acute disease from putrid emanations, §§ 5 and 6 | 10 |
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| Specific disease communicated from human remains—positive instances of, §§ 8 and 10 | 14 |
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| Distinct effects produced by emanations from bodies in a state of decay and from bodies in a state of putrefaction, § 10 | 21 |
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| Summary of the evidence in respect to the sanitary question as to the essentially injurious nature of such emanations, &c., § 11 | 23 |
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| Difficulty of tracing distinctly the specific effects of emanations from burial-grounds in crowded towns, amidst complications of other emanations, § 13 | 23 |
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| Tainting of wells by emanations from burial-grounds, § 14 | 24 |
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| Danger of injurious escapes of putrid emanations not obviated by deep burial, § 21 | 28 |
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| General conclusions that all interments in churches or in towns are essentially of an injurious and dangerous tendency, § 23 | 30 |
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| Injuries to the Health of Survivors occasioned by the delay of Interments. | |
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| The greatest proportion of deaths occur in the single rooms in which families live and sleep, § 25 | 31 |
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| Instances of the common circumstances of their deaths; and of the deleterious effects of the prolonged retention of the body in the living and sleeping room, from the western districts of the metropolis, § 26—from the eastern districts, §§ 27 and 28—from Leeds, § 34 | 31 |
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| Numbers of deaths from epidemic, endemic, and contagious disease; and consequent extent of dangers from the undue retention of the body amidst the living, § 38 | 43 |
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| Moral evils produced by the practice, §§ 41 and 42 | 45 |
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| The delay of Interments amongst the Labouring Classes in part ascribable to the difficulty of raising excessive Funeral Expenses, § 40 | 45 |
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| Evidence of undertakers on the funeral expenses and modes of conducting the funerals of different classes of society, §§ 43 and 44 | 46 |
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| Specific effects of excessive Funeral Expenses on the economy of the Labouring Classes. | |
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| Extent of pecuniary provision made in savings’ banks and benefit societies for funeral expenses, §§ 53 and 55—Abuse of the popular feeling of anxiety in respect to interments; and waste and distress occasioned to them, §§ 56 and 57 | 55 |
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| Demoralizing effect of multiplied insurances for large payments for funeral expenses on the occurrence of deaths, §§ 60 and 61—Illegality of the practice. § 66—Case for interference for the prevention of crime, and measures for the reduction of the excessive expenses, §§ 69 and 71 | 63 |
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| Aggregate Expenses of Funerals to the Public. | |
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| Small proportion of clerical burial dues to the undertaker’s expenses, § 74 | 69 |
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| Heavy proportion of funeral expenses in unhealthy districts, § 75—Efficient sanitary measures the most efficient means of diminishing the miseries of frequent interments, § 81 | 71 |
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| Failure of the objects of excessive expenditure on funerals—solemnity or proportionate impressiveness not obtained, § 84—and unattainable in crowded and busy districts, § 85—Increasing desertion of intra-mural burial-grounds, § 89 | 79 |
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| Means of diminishing the evil of the prolonged retention of the Dead amidst the Living. | |
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| Obstacles to the early removal of the dead examined, § 89—Grounds for the apprehension of interment before life is extinct. § 90—Institution for the reception and care of the dead previous to interment formed in Germany, § 96—Success of, in abating the apprehensions of survivors, § 97—Practical evidence of the necessity of some such insti
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