ADVANTAGES OF CREMATION

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 49, 27 August 1934, Page 16

ADVANTAGES OF CREMATION

The advantages of cremation were urged during tho annual "inspection, by the Cemeteries Corporation, say? "Public Opinion." Tho chairman, Alderman George ;M. Platt, emphasised the importance of creating a favourable publie attitude towards cremation. There had been 211 cremations during the year, and the number since tho opening of tho crematorium was 2668, and theso : figures wore considered as proof that the cremation movement is gaining more supporters.

Mr. Godseff, chief superintendent of the. cemeteries, said that of the two methods of disposing of the dead only one was .absolutely efficient and sanitary. That was cremation. "We are all cremationists, and we hope that the public will soon como to agree that ft is the better method." :

Sir John Robertson, late Medical Officer of Health, speaking at the joint conferenco of. the National Association of Cemetery and Crematorium Superintendents: and the Federation of Cromation Authorities in Great Britain, in Birmingham, reforring to cremation, said that "it accurately indicated what took place on tho funeral pyro in India and other places, but it did not express what took place1 in a modern crematorium. There tho fire never came in contact with tho body, and the resulting products wero almost precisely the same as in good earth burial.' Instead of a decade' or more to accomplish the result, the modern furnace did it in an hour or so.