* " 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 made by the late Sir Henrv Thompson at the opening of Golder's Green Crematorium, 22nd Nov"ember,
1902. Vide "Transactions of Cremation Society of England, 1903." p. 31.
† Closed for reconstruction from August, 1913, to July, 1914.
BACTERIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL EXAMINATIONS OF MILK.
Samples Collected at Railway Stations.
During the latter part of September and the early part of October, samples of milk
arriving in the City of London from the country were collected at Liverpool Street Station
and submitted to Sir Frederick Andrewes, K.B.E., City Bacteriologist, for bacteriological
examination and investigation as to the presence of "dirt." A duplicate of each sample
was also submitted to Mr. E. A. Pinchin, B.Sc., Public Analyst for the City, for chemical
examination. In all, 42 samples from different farms situate in the following counties
were examined:—
Essex 9
Suffolk 11
Norfolk 19
Cambridgeshire 9
Lincolnshire 1
