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City of London 1925

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Table: CREMATIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. 41 Years—1885-1925.

CREMATIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. 41 Years—1885-1925.

YEAR.Woking.*Manchester.Glasgow.Liverpool.Hull.Darlington.LeicesterGolder's GreenBirmingham.Leeds.City of London.Sheffield.Bradford.W. Norwood.Hendon Park.Pontypridd.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
190595973535154162522216971............604
1906140904446171312298251523614............743
1907108983034298122903316181813............707
1908119116283237614364182419126............795
19091051063046159194213019241813............855
1910106114283721916415381222814............840
191111412439502512135424417201013............1,023
19121251494452271514591402432129............1,134
191312817249662311116025916211515............1,188
1914124184574816117†6715328422018............1,279
19151531656354341622730452045211230........1,410
19161251797158251023633632243141189........1,366
191712917867622415347194917682510118........1,515
191814219774694317428206434705020153........1,795
191918123584894626369197630684131169.........2,031
192014920380693018328517226583220156........1,796
192115922887754320368937831572924162........1,922
1922193189757445172393998317038251866....2,009
1923170227906245213692075276937231786....1,986
192123525182744728491,1149747683224240742,390
1925271287116754132571,214126486648322637142,700
Totals5,72444301,4291,478716329529145811,2255209124933181,747261834,505

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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 there"
by to others."—Extract from speech mile by the late Sir Henry Thomoson at the opening of Golder's Green Crematorium, 22nd Nov"
ember, 1902. Vide " Transactions of Cremation Society of England, 1903." p. 31.
t Closed for reconstruction from August, 1913, to July, 1914.
EXHUMATION AND REINTERMENT OF BODIES.
City of London Cemetery.—During the year bodies of seven persons buried at the City
of London Cemetery at Ilford have been exhumed and subsequently re-interred in the same
Cemetery. In accordance with the terms of the licences issued by the Home Secretary in
respect of these cases, the work of removal and re-interment was carried out in the early
morning under the supervision of your Medical Officer of Health.
Site of Saint Benet Fink's Church.—-In the course of excavations in connection with the
enlarging of an underground electrical transformer chamber, situate in the former burial
ground of St. Benet Fink's Church, human remains were found.
The excavation was carried to a depth of sixteen feet six inches, and in all, six cases
containing lead coffins, and three cases containing loose bones were removed to the City of
London Cemetery at Ilford, and re-buried in consecrated ground in accordance with the
Faculty granted by the Consistorial and Episcopal Court.
Of the six lead coffins, identification was possible in three instances.
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