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City of London 1908

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Table: CREMATIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, 24 Years—1885-1908.

CREMATIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM,

24 Years—1885-1908.

YEAR.Woking.Manchester.Glasgow.Liverpool.Hall.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
190314392243518151583............479
1904138981940208822019............570
190595973535153162522016971601
1906140904546171312298251523613743
1907108963034298132903316181813706
1908119116283237614364182419126795 t
Total3,115124029441816642691587118716943337,265

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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.