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City of London 1906

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Table: CREMATIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, 22 Years—1885-1906.

CREMATIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, 22 Years—1885-1906.

YEAR.Woking.Manchester.Glasgow.Liverpool.Hull.Leicester.Golder's Green.Birmingham.Darlington.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
190127396184017........................444
19022758120541315..................449
190314392243518515831............479
1904138981940208220177............567
190595973535151625222416971604
1906140904546171229825131523613743
Totals2,8881028236352100429336725313213145,761

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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 haying 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.