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under the Act, issued regulations * which are of a very stringent character,
and which will have the effect of guaranteeing, so far as it is
possible to do so, that no individual who has been the victim of poison
can be cremated, and thus all evidence of the crime be permanentlydestroyed.
The risk of this has hitherto been one of the main arguments
against cremation which have been advanced by those who still
advocate the less sanitary method of earth burial.
* Two certificates of death are required—one given by the medical attendant,
the other by an independent person, viz., a doctor nominated by the cremationauthority
or a person holding an official post, or a certificate given after a postmortem
examination by a pathologist nominated by the authority or by a
coroner after an inquest.