§ 35. Mr. HILLSasked the President of the Local Government Board whether he will in future decline to sanction the appointment of relieving officers as registrars of deaths, so that, in case of death arising from destitution or of death of an inmate of a workhouse, the certificate for burial may not be obtained from a Poor Law official but from someone outside the Poor Law?
§ Mr. BURNSThe combination of the two offices of relieving officer and of registrar of births and deaths frequently occurs and is found to be convenient. In the latter capacity the official deals with all births and deaths in the population. There seems to be no sufficient reason for discontinuing the present practice.