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The Memorial of the
Vestry
Board of Works
for the
Parish
District
of
in the County of
To the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart.
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department.
Sheweth—
That your memorialists have information, through their
Medical Officer of Health, that a considerable number of
Deaths are registered respecting which no sufficient evidence
of the cause of death is produced, and that persons whose
deaths are thus registered are interred upon Registrar's
certificate witheut any inquiry being made into the manner in
which they came by their death.
That in other cases, where a medical certificate of the
cause of death is produced to the Registrar, such certificate is
given in a loose and unsatisfactory manner.
That by these circumstances many deaths escape inquiry,
about the cause of which there is reasonable ground for
suspicion.
That your memorialists further have reason to know that
numbers of Births are not registered under the present provisions
of the Registration laws for England, and that many
fallacies and inconveniences arise from such omission.
That in Scotland and Ireland the Registration laws provide
for the registration, under penalty, of every birth.
Your memorialists therefore pray—
That Her Majesty's Government may be pleased to apply
to Parliament for an amendment of the laws relating to the
Registration of Births and Deaths in England, so as to
provide—
1. For evidence in every case of death, as to the
manner in which the deceased person came by his death.
2. For the complete registration of all births in