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City of London 1909

Annual report of Medical Officer of Health for 1909

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Table: CREMATIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, 25 Years—1885-1909.

CREMATIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, 25 Years—1885-1909.

YEAR.Woking.Manchester.Glasgow.Liverpool.Hull.Darlington.Leicester.Golder's Green.Birmingham.Leeds.Ilford.Sheffield.Bradford.No. of Cremations each year.
18853....................................3
188610....................................10
188713....................................13
188828.................................28
188946.................................46
189054.................................54
189199....................................99
18921043..............................107
189310130.................................131
189412547..............................172
1895150581..............................209
189613752102........................201
1897173511610........................250
1898240621227...........................341
1899240881623...........................367
1900301832040...........................444
1901273961840172.....................446
190227581205413115...............450
190314392243518151588............479
1904138981940208822019............570
190595973535153162522016971601
1906140904546171312298251523613743
1907108963034298132903316181813706
1908119116283237614364182419126795
19091051063046159194213019241813855
Total3,220134632446418151882008148909361468,120

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* "Viscount Cross in the year 1879 forbid the practice of cremation there (Woking) under the threat of
"passing an Act to make it illegal .... But in 1884 appeared the well-known judgment of Mr. Justice
"Stephen, which, in the case of a child's body having been burned by its father contrary to the order of the
"coroner, determined cremation to be a legal act, provided no nuisance be caused thereby to others."—Extract
from speech made by the late Sir Henry Thompson at the opening of Golder's Green Crematorium, 22nd November,
1902. Vide " Transactions of Cremation Society of England, 1903." p. 31.