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BOROUGH CREMATION SERVICE
The Borough Council, in October 1957, entered into an agreement
with the General Cemetery Company whereby a reduced standard charge
of four guineas would apply for each Chelsea resident in respect
of whom cremation was carried out at the Kensal Green Crematorium.
During the past year these arrangements were made for twenty-four
persons.
In Great Britain the total number of cremations recorded last
year was 190,819, an increase of over 10,000 in the figure for 1958.
The total for 1959 represented 32.30% of the recorded deaths as
compared with 30.58% for the preceding year.
It will be seen from the following table that since 1952 the
number of crematoria established in the country has more than
doubled. The last few years also show a steady increase in the
percentage of the total deaths cremated.