London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

City of London 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]

This page requires JavaScript

CREMATIONS IN THE UNITED

YEAR.Woking.Manchester.Glasgow.Liverpool.Hull.Darlington.Leicester.Colders Green.Birmingham. (Perry Bar).Leeds.City of London.Sheffield.Bradford.W. Norwood.Hendon Park.Pontypridd.Bristol.Ipswich.Edinburgh.Brighton.
18853............................................................................
188610............................................................................
188713............................................................................
188828............................................................................
188946............................................................................
189054............................................................................
189199............................................................................
18921043........................................................................
189310130........................................................................
189412547........................................................................
1895150581....................................................................
18961375210....................................................................
1897173511610................................................................
1898240621227................................................................
1899240881623................................................................
1900301832040................................................................
1901273961840171........................................................
190227581205413215................................................
190314392243518161581............................................
1904138981940207822019............................................
190595973535154162522216971............................
1906140904446171312298251523614............................
1907108983034298122903316181813............................
1908119116283237614364182419126............................
19091051063046159194213019241813............................
1910106114283721916415381222814............................
191111412439502512135424417201013............................
19121251494452271514591402432129............................
191312817249662311116025916211515............................
191412418457481611† 76715328422018............................
19151531656354341622730452045211230........................
19161251797158251023633632243141189........................
191712917867622415347194917682510118........................
191814219774694317428206434705020153........................
191918123584894626369197630684131169........................
192014920380693018328517226583220156........................
192115922887754320368937831572924162........................
1922193189757445172393998317038251866....................
1923170227906245213692075276937231786....................
192423525182744728401,114974768322424074................
1925271287116754132571,21412648664832266714................
192630530398965533701,27012840844332299813................
19273203571291017038681,459150599557502791122................
19283443671411037239611,4831576010351. 453061120712........
192942644318510397551241,7972056699814741014281163720....
193044644212116084521191,78718073112594939012401435512578
193147650815816312862891,8662571091128777415134317768169144
193244662616517112677942,24530711615884123480135123794266263
10334476742022471481191222,3963951531921081016241084300120359300
19344307172552401831001292.55338616523712013565311105329132474348
1935464790307207194741492,8554592002151291587261395312167541449
1936480892341222195861983,12648620629514618868015139. 350201730516
19375561,0754302862491062143,46760722636415521645517194475175899601
1938CM1,2244673163011122343,421555273451218270333932044661821,085694 9
Totals11,41812,8484,4133.8932,6191,2852,19744,3065,4972,2663,4301,8311,8377,7982691,0562,9761,2334,6683,393
* "Viscount Cross in the year 187a forbade the practice of cremation there (Woking) under the threat of passing an Act to make it illegal But in 1884 "coroner, determined cremation to be a legal act, provided no nu»ance be caused thereby to others"—Extract from speech made by the late Sir Henry †Closed for reconstruction from August, 1913y, 1914.

CREMATION.
Cremation, as a method of disposal of the dead, continues to make progress in this
country. The progress is not as rapid as many of us would wish, but it is gratifying to know
that more and more municipal authorities are meeting the demand by the installation of
crematoria in their own areas.' There now exist in this country 47 different crematoria,
and during 1938 the total cremations carried out reached the figure of 10,312.
At the Crematorium established at Little Ilford by the Burial Board of the City of
London, 451 cremations took place, as compared with 304 in 1937, and constitutes the
highest figure since the opening of the Crematorium in 1905.