JB_011_220.xml

Title: [1826 Nov. 6 Body-providing Bill]

Description: 1826 Nov. 6

Body-providing Bill

Draught

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

Be it enacted & c

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

JB_011_221.xml

Title: [1826 Nov. 6 Body-providing Bill]

Description: 1826 Nov. 6

Body-providing Bill

Draught

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

JB_115_067_002.xml

Title: [1000 with the addition of only £10 per head]

Description: 1000 with the addition of only £10 per head payable the half thereof

on the reception of each supernumerary and the other half on

that day twelvemonth, clear of all deductions, with interest in

case of arrear as hereinabovementioned : which said addition of

£10 shall be in lieu of all expences touching the providing

buildings and other accommodations for the reception of every

such supernumerary. Provided that such addition, after having

been once paid for any such supernumerary, shall not

be paid for any other such supernumerary, except in as far as

the total number of such supernumeraries, reckoning from the

first, shall be encreased by the reception of such latter supernumerary :

as for example, if two hundred supernumeraries be

committed in the first instance, and the number be afterwards

reduced to one hundred, then the addition shall not be paid in

respect of any further supernumeraries which may successively

be added to the one hundred, untill the number of supernumeraries

be augmented again so as to amount to more than two

hundred.

Art. 5. And Whereas in and by the said Statute of the 7 th

of July 1794 it is enacted that when the said Penitentiary

House or Houses shall be erected in pursuance of, and according to,

such Contract or Contracts as therein and herein mentioned, or sooner

if occasion shall require, it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty,

His Heirs and Successors from time to time by an order

in writing to be notified by the Principal Secretary of State for

the Home Department, to appoint one or more fit and discreet

person or persons to be Governor or Governors of the said Penitentiary

House or Houses, to continue in such office or offices

respectively, for such time and under such conditions as his

Majesty shall direct, who being so appointed thereunto shall have