DEADLINE FOR COFFINS
MENACE TO HEALTH HONG KONG. The Chinese authorities in Shanghai have taken preliminary steps to remove one of the greatest menaces to the health of the city, according to arrivals from the north. This menace is some 80,000 coffins left unburied for superstitious and other reasons in Funeral Parlours or Coffin Depositories. The Bureau of Public Health gives June next year as the deadline for clearance of all such coffins from their present sites, either by burial in graveyards or by cremation, informants told A.A.P.-Reuter. The main reason for the authorities’ action is that the majority of the coffins are in various stages of decay. It is believed that superstition is the •main cause of the coffins being left unburied, as among Buddhists it is held that the burial of a coffin underground has an unseen but powerful bearing on the prosperity of the family’s offspring.—.Reuter.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 257, 17 August 1950, Page 5
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