Note 245 — Chapter XXXI · MORTUARIES.
Reading edition
Vide ‘A Supplementary Report on the Results of a Special Enquiry into the Practice of Interments in Towns,’ by Edwin Chadwick, 1843.
[246] There is no law that can compel any one to receive a dead body into his house.
[247] It is important to remove the idea of a “parish dead-house,” otherwise its object will be defeated, as persons will object to allow the bodies of their deceased friends to be taken to it.