London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of London 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
This page requires JavaScript
Chart showing the increase of Cremation in the United
Kingdom since that mode of disposal of the dead received
legal sanction in 1884..
Average time occupied in incineration — 63 minutes.
Average weight of Ash — 2 85% of Body.
ResuIts, 1905. City of London Crematorium, IIford.