BISK TO MOURNERS.
BARE HEADS AT FUNERALS. CHANGE OF CUSTOM APPROVED. A. and N.Z. SYDNEY. OcK 7. The Council of Churches received a letter from a prominent medical man in which he laitl stress upon tho danger of persons contracting pneumonia or other diseases while they stand bareheaded at a funeral service, when their bodily resistance is lowered by grief. In response to the communication the council agreed that it would be wise for all ministers who officiated at funerals to ask the mourners 'to uncover. their heads only for the actual committal of a coffin to the grave.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19453, 8 October 1926, Page 11
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