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City of London 1914

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Table: CREMATIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, 30 Y ears —1885-1914.

CREMATIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, 30 Y ears —1885-1914.

YEAR.Woking.*Manchester.Glasgow.Liverpool.Hull.Darlington.Leicester.Golder's Green.Birmingham.Leeds.City of London.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
1901273961840171.....................445
190227581205413215...............451
190314392243518151581............477
1904138981940207822019............569
190595973535154162522216971604
1906140904446171312298251523614743
1907108983034298122903316181813707
1908119116283237614364182419126795
19091051063046159194213019241813855
1910106114283721916415381222814840
1911114124395025121354244172010131,023
191212514944522715145914024321291,134
1913128172496623111160259162115151,188
1914124184574816117†67153284220181,279
Total3,8172091540717293109148482938218723012611613,585

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* "Viscount Cross in the year 1879 forbade 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 HeDry Thompson at the opening of Golder's Green Crematorium, 22nd November.
1902. Vide " Transactions of Cremation Society of England, 1903." p. 31.
† Closed for reconstruction from August, 1913, to July, 1914.