CREMATION PRAISED
BURIAL a SOCIAL CRIME.”
LONDON. July 23
Lord 11 order, Physician-in-Ordinary lo Hie King, in his presidential mi-
')■(.?!',?; at the meeting of the Cremation Society, said that buriai of the ■ cad. which bad lod.t berm p luxury, was to-day p social crime. He added that, cremation . in the prst. place, spared the indignity am! ivroverencfi of exlinmation which was tile lot. of many persons who were buried. In the second place, it offered p rational attitude, towards death. !u the third place, and most important, of all. it prevented crime or helped to detect it. because of the certification system associated with crema ( ion.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 August 1938, Page 4
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