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Death

§ Advertisements

— clothing

— coffins

— funeral contractors

§ Cemeteries, Burial Grounds, Vaults

— a list of cemeteries

— Abney Park

— Battersea and Tooting Cemetery

— Bunhill Fields

— Brompton

— church vaults

— cemeteries, a mid-Victorian view (Payn)

— Crystal Palace District Cemetery

— an East End cemetery

— Enon Chapel

— graves of the poor

— Highgate

— Kensal Green

— London burial grounds, list of

— 'London Cemeteries and the Epidemic in 1849'

— Necropolis Railway / Woking Cemetery 

— Nunhead

— statuary in cemeteries

— Tower Hamlets

— West Norwood

— Whitfield Burial Ground

§ Customs and Dealing with Death

— awaiting burial

— burial of stillborn children

— burial of suicides

— a coroner's inquest

— 'The Grave-Digger'

— mortuaries

— mourning

— mourning warehouses

— police duties (1903)

— visits of condolence

§ Funerals

— character of funerals and undertakers

— cremation

— drink and behaviour of mourners (1) (2)

— falseness of funeral ceremony (1) (2)

— fees (1) (2) (3)

— funeral horses

— hearse business, the

— mutes

— paupers' funerals

— poor child's funeral

— registration of death

— undertaker's bill

— undertakers' shop windows

§ Overcrowding and Disease

— 'Burials in London' (c.1851)

— keeping dead bodies in rooms (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

— miasma

— overcrowding

§ Representations of

— 'Fading away' (photo)

— statuary and monuments in cemeteries (1) (2)