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