A PROPOSED CREMATORIUM.

Evening Star, Issue 12870, 20 July 1906, Page 7

A PROPOSED CREMATORIUM.

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WELLINGTON, July 20. Cremation is making a bid for "popular recognition. The movement is headed by Miss Studholmc, daughter of Mr John Studholme, long and favorably known in Canterbury. She has been for some years engaged in London in good works requiring an expert knowledge of hygiene, and having overworked her strength is here recovering. Being a .Haunch sanatlst (if I may coin a term), she is utilising her leisure hero by trying to get up an agitation in favor of the practice of cremation. She argues that it is the only sanitary method of disposing of the remains of the dead, but admits that there are two valid objections—(l) the cost of the proces, and (2) the encouragement given to criminal instinct.* by a swift process of destruction. Tho first point she meets by showing that the cost of cremation is now, where cremation is practised no more than the cost of ordinary burial; the second she meets bv quoting regulat!.?.n m *°. rce in Paris, London, and other cities.. We shall hear more of this anon.