Star.
London, England, 1828-08-28 00:00:00

• "•"---" PAIIIXAMENtIen PAPER. •
Re Select Committal imprinted to inquire into the manner of
g Utica* tilt Vineeition in the Schoob of Anatomy,
itisti tot, Theltate of the Law affecting the Persons employed in
ebtiikang or Amain Smiles; and to whonrseterat Tetitlond
diseitsu remiewd at lonipsdioursta to the eskidrarbso of
ofllittitomy wenrieferted ; and who were empowered tWreport
the Minutes of Evidence taken before them ;—Have, pursuant to
the Order of the House, etuntieet the matters to them referred,
and lime to the fallowing Report i

tb; &ma of yesterday.)

Independently of the beatings of 'the question on
theinterests 01 medical practitioners, and nivtlye health
of the ciim munity, the sy stern 'pursued is prodbctive of
Ateivevil, by training op' ie race of men in habits emi-
'Andy Calculated tosfebase therri;snd to prepare them for
the commission of violent and daring offences. The num-
WO Orions who, irr London, leg ol arry- live bj raising
boLlies, is stated by the two police officers examined
b tore the Committee, not to exceed-ten; but the num-
ber of persons ncessibnally employed in the same ems-
Ott* is stated by'the same witnesses to be nearly 200.
Nearly-the whole of these individuals, as is adortted by
the exhumators themselves who were examined befire
the Cominittees'ore occupied also in thieving, and form
the most desperate and abandoned class of the commu-
nity. If, witli a view to favour •anatomy, exhumation
should be allowed to continue, it appears almost a nece's-
s'ary consequence that thieves also should be tolerated.
It should seem useless. however, with a view to suppress
exhumation, to endeavour to execute the existing- lases
with increased severity, or to enact new and more rigo-
rous ones. The effect of interpreting and execut ng the
liws with increasing rigour has been, net to suppress
exhumation, but to.raise the price of bodies, and to in-
trease the number of collimators. So long as there is
no legalised mode of supplying the dissecting schools, so
hug she practice of disinterment will continue ; but if
other measures were devised, which would legalise and
insure a regular, plentiful, and cheap supply, the prac-
tice of disinterring bodies, and of receivingthein, would,
of necessity, be entirely abandoned.
Before adverting to those new methods far obtaining
an adequate eupply of subjects; which have been sug-
gested by the witnesses who have been examined before
the Committee, they will state in what manner, accord.
ing to the evidence addoced,the schools of Anatomy at
Paris are provided. Toey have also inquired into the
practice of some other foreign schools, for an account
of which they beg to refer to the evidence itself; and
• :they; dwell upon the practice of the schools at Paris,
Ebecauseit approaches most nearly to the plan recom-
Melded by most of the witnesses for adoption in this
country.
The administration of all the hospitals at Paris, since
the period of the Revolution, has been confided to a
public board of management. The rule it the hospitals
is, that every patient who dies shall be attsnded by a
priest; and that; after the performance of the usual
ceremonies of the Catholic Church, the body shall be,
removed from.the chapel attached to the hospital to the
dead room, and there .remain for twenty-four bows,
'examined
sooner claimed by the relitivet. Bodies May be
examined after death, by the-medical officers attached
to an hOspitil, hi order to ascettain the douse of death,
Sot may not-be dissected bythem. A body, if claimed
by the triends after examination, is sewed up in a clean
cloth before being delivered to them. If not claimed
within twenty•four hours after death, after being en-
veloped in a cloth ib s skunk. ailialier, it 11 Mr, lathe
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