Cremation an incentive to crime : a plea for legislation / by Francis Seymour Haden.

  • Francis Seymour Haden
Date:
1892
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Credit: Cremation an incentive to crime : a plea for legislation / by Francis Seymour Haden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    safety, ought rather to be at once declared a misdemeanour-but a Bill to regulate and ensure safe and proper burial; which Bill, to be effectual, should, besides dealing with the whole subject of cemeterial manage- ment, contain the following provisions :— (1) For burial within the earth as the only legal mode of disposing of a dead body. ° (2) For a limitation of time beyond which it should be illegal to keep a dead body unburied. (3) For the illegality of strong coffins, brick graves and vaults, and of all contrivances having for their effect to retard resolution, and to confer on the dead a tenure, practically illimitable, of the soil which is necessary to the purposes of the living. F. SEYMOUR HADEN. Woodcote Manor, Al.RESFORD, Hants. Dec. 20, 1892. LONDON : PRINTED BV EDWARD STANFORD, a6 AND 27, COCKSIUR STREET, CHARING CROSS, S.W.
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