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Evening Star, Issue 18542, 26 January 1924, Page 2

Among the reforms introduced by Dean. Stanley during his term of office was a- reduction in the fees for interment in Westminster Abbey, which formerly totalled about £l6O, beside tho cost of scarfs,, hatbands, and gloves, for which the undertaker made an extra charge. The foes paid tho dean, and sub-dean for their services amounted to £4O 6s, and everyone else taking part in the ceremony, from tho vergers to the choristers "and organist, was fed on a lavish .scale,, Tho use of a linen shroud entailed a cost'of £s—a reminiscence of the old law which sought to stimulate homo industries by insisting that all persons should be buried in linen. This charge was not abolished by the uhbev authorities until 1871. By order of the Caliph, the State dentist'has lately been banished from Constantinople. 'He probably got on tho Caliph’s nerves.