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Cremation of the Dead: Its History and Bearings Upon Public Health

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By William Eassie
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The book surveys the history, practice, and sanitary rationale for burning the dead, comparing cremation with alternative methods such as burial, embalming, and exposure. It examines burial laws, cemetery design and risks posed by interment to public health, and reviews contemporary adoption across countries. Practical chapters describe modern cremation technology, including industrial furnaces, procedures for reducing remains, and handling of ashes and cinerary vessels. The work concludes with recommendations for public policy, illustrative plates, and a bibliography to aid further study.

[207] A. P. Reid.

[208] Nicolo di Coti.

[209] J. E. Price.

[210] H. M. Westropp.

[211] The artist, Mr. J. E. Newton, an exhibitor at the Royal Academy of 1874. I have engraved a few of his designs.

[212] The above remarks do not refer to those monster urns in which the whole body was entombed unburnt. Some of these measure six feet in length and four and a half feet in width. One found at Dardanus was able to accommodate six persons. See the 'Illustrated London News' of April 26, 1856.

[213] My friend Mr. Clarke has very kindly sketched, in elucidation of this view, the vessels shown in the family mausoleum sketched in Plate V.

[214] Numbers of these relics were dug up at both places, in 1855 and 1856, by Mr. Spencer Wells, Dr. Kirk, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Brunton, myself, and others.

[215] The church of St. Ursula; the bones are said to be those of the Eleven Thousand Virgins.

[216] This is urged by Mr. Baker, the author of the 'Laws relating to Burial,' in a letter addressed to me.

Transcriber's note:

Minor typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected without note. Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed.

Plate VI "E. F. C. Prentos" is unclear.