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1826 Nov. 6
Body-providing Bill
Draught

and
M.R. preambles of no less length might be found
in the Book, but should the following attempt to is
the case for modern usage, the connection then brought to the
neglect to be elemental and of the Bill: read as otherwise informed

than as reason
be of the
suggestion

§.1. Whereas the life and health and the health of the living mainly depend
to a large upon information collected from the bo-
-dies of the dead

s. 1
Preamble Life and health
of the living depends on
information collected from
bodies of the dead

2. under existing laws
such information can only
be obtained by body stealing
which noxious practice such laws are in-
-effectual in and
for the obtainment of
the small number of
bodies requisite the whole country in exposed to affliction

And whereas under the existing laws
these indispensable information is no otherwise obtained
than by the surreptious obtainment stealing of bodies from churchyards, to the
great scandal of religion and affliction of the relatives
of the deceased when bodies are now dealt with
being an inquest to view in a state of melancholy
and whereas these laws notwithstanding the grievous
opposed to by them to the promotion of life and health
found insufficient to any intended pursuit which

the so much that for
the obtainment of the
components
of bodies, requi-
-site to the purpose of

to the healing and
his
the population
of the country
exposed to the affliction

And whereas it is but just that such persons
for the preservation of whose life and health when living the
needed of Christian charity and medical
have been expended should contribute to the
at a time when by such contribution no suffering can
be experienced by

3. It is but just that
those for the preservation of whose life and health
compensated by charity
should contribute when
dead to charity has been
expended, should when
dead contribute to the
rendering a similar
service to their fellow
country men

Be it enacted
that from and after the of most enmity whose
and as often as admission within any hospital the
situated within that part of the United Kingdom
is component of the Island of Great Britain and Ireland
is applied for on behalf the part of any person in quantity of
use

Enactment A patient
applying for an admission
to an hospital shall thereby
be understood to leave his
body at the disposal of the
medical practitioners of
the hospital, in the event
of his dying therein

Identifier: | JB/011/220/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
Date_1	1826-11-06	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	011	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	220	Info in main headings field	body-providing bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1826
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1826
Notes public		ID Number	3917
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