COLLECTIONS FOR FUNERALS
OUTCRY AGAINST CUSTOM. Public feeling has been roused at Dudley, Worcestershire, over the length of time residents in the poorer districts keep their dead before burial.' The local health authorities have discovered that it is no uncommon thing for a body to be kept eight or nine days, and in many cases even longer. It is suggested that a bylaw should bo enacted to prevent the practice. In many cases the relatives of the deceased have not sufficient money to pay the funeral expenses, and often collect the money from charitable residents in neighbouring streets. Women as a rule do the collecting, and after tho interment lias taken place they are, in accordance with .a local custom, presented with a black apron.
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Evening Star, Issue 20468, 26 April 1930, Page 21
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125COLLECTIONS FOR FUNERALS Evening Star, Issue 20468, 26 April 1930, Page 21
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