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The list of items for improvement to be added to the Registration Act:

• The registration of the causes of disease, with a vew to devising remedies or means of prevention.
• The determination of the salubrity of places in different situations, with a vew to individual settlements and public establishments
• The determination of comparative degrees of salubrity, as between occupation itself and occupation in places differently circumstanced, in order that persons willing to engage in insalubrious occupations may be te more effectually enabled to obtain adequate provision for their loss of health.
• The collection of data for calculating the rate of mortality, and giving safety to the immense mass of property insured, so as to enable every one to employ his money to the best advantage for his own behalf, or for the benefit of persons dear to him; and that without the impression of loss to any one else.
• The obtainment of a means of ascertaining the progress of population at different periods, and under differing circumstances.
• The direction of the mind of the Government and of the people to the extent and effects of calamities and casualties; the prevention of undue interments; concealed murder; and deaths from culpable heedlessness or negligence.

Quoted in B.W.Richardson, The Health of Nations, 77-8. F154.

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