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1826 Nov' 6 Body providing Bill
1826 Nov' 6

Body providing Bill

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in case of extraordinary symptoms to make in private and if desired by the applicant in /his or her/in the/ presence, such aperture as may be necessary for the investigation of the cause of death: and if thereupon the body is not accordingly delivered such practitioner shall forfeit and pay to such applicant the sum of one hundred pounds.

 To be inserted in case of objection not otherwise.

§. 3. And for the preservation of the rites of the Church violation /or/and/ neglect be it enacted that at the expense of such medical practitioner as aforesaid a coffin shall be provided in which every body so disposed of either within the hospital or elsewhere shall be deposited and in which after it has been so disposed of the same or some part thereof shall after the rules of the Church of England be interred in the cemetery belonging to the Parish place within which the last operation on the body was performed
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    patient the requisite and sufficient consent shall be understood to have been thereby given to such disposal of his body in the event of his dying within the same /for the instruction/as may be most conducive to instruction/ in the art of healing under the direction of the medical practitioners having the principal charge of the said Hospital, and that with the exceptions and under the conditions hereinafter following such person's consent shall be sufficient warrant for the eventual[?] disposal of the body in manner aforesaid

    §. 2. And whereas /after/notwithstanding/ any such consent actually given by the deceased it may nevertheless be matter of affliction to his surviving relatives to see or know of the exposure of his body in such manner as may be necessary, espeically if the same were deprived of the benefits according to the rules of the Church of England or other Christian Church as the case may be

    Be it enacted that if within four and twenty hours after the decease of any such patient any person /presenting/shall have presented/ himself or herself at the said hospital offering to render oath or being of the persuasion of the people called Quakers to affirm that he or she /is husband or wife/was wife or husband/ of the deceased at the time of his or her death or related to him or her within any one of the degrees called with relation to marriage the prohibited degrees according to the form in Schedule A hereto annext which oath or affirmation any person who by the instrument of his appointment has been constituted Physician, Surgeon, Apothecary or […?] principal Assistant is hereby authorized to administer the body of the deceased shall be delivered to such applicant saving the right of such practitioner
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    N.B. Argumentative[?] preambles of no less length might be found in the Statute Book; but should the following prescript be regarded as too long for modern usage, the considerations here brought to view might be eliminated out of the Bill: and no otherwise emplyed than as reasons in the mouths of its supporters.

    §1. Whereas the life and health of the living mainly depends upon information collected from the bodies of the dead

    And whereas under the existing laws this indispensible information is no otherwise obtained than by the /surreptitious attainment/stealing/ of bodies from Church yards to the great scandal of religion and affliction of the relatives of the deceased and whereas these laws notwithstanding the grievous obstruction opposed by them to the preservation of life and health have proved ineffectual for their intended purpose, so much that for the obtainment of the comparatively small number of bodies requisite to the purpose of instruction in the healing art little less than the whole population of the country remain[?] exposed to this affliction

    And whereas it is but just that such persons as for the preservation of whose health when living the united stores of christian charity and medical art and science have been expended should contribute to the dispensation[?] of the same blessings to their surviving friends and countrymen especially at a time when by such contributions no suffering can be experienced by themselves

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    that from and after the /zs/ of /zs/ next ensuing when and as often as admission within any hospital /the/ situated within that part of the United Kingdom which is composed of the Islands of Great Britain and Ireland is applied for on behalf of any person in quality of patient
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    §. 2. 25 G.2.c.37 […?] dissected and anatomized by the said Surgeons[?]

    And whereas so far from affording as intended an adequate supply to the demand for bodies for anatomical dissection the statute[?] of /zs/ by which the bodies of murderers are appropriated to the purpose of dissection has by placing on the footing of /Cain/murderers/ all such persons whose bodies shall have happened to be so dealt with tended in no small degree[?] to the diminution of such supply be it enacted that the said statute is hereby repealed.

    And whereas in and by an Act made and passed in the twenty fifth year of King George the Second intitled "An Act for the better prevention of the horrid crime of murder" it is provided that in the case therein mentioned the bodies of persons convicted of murder shall or may be by the persons[?] there[?] […?] dissected and anatomized, be it enacted that so much of the said Act as authorizes/relates to/ such proceeding shall […?] […?] […?] is hereby repealed.