INDEX.

Apparatus, cost of best modern, 113 — inoffensiveness of the modern, 106, 112, 114 Ashes, depositing in churches, 16, 124 — — in urns, 119 — interment of, 16, 36, 123 — time necessary for reduction to, 115 — weight of, 115 Burials, crowded, 41, 67 — dangers of, 6, 18, 53 — depths of, 46 — in caves, 5, 29 — in vaults, 47, 59 — near habitations, 44, 54 Burial-grounds, inundations of, 48, 63, 65 — — draining of, 48 — — old, 50 Burial laws, 41 Cattle, burial of, 63 Cemeteries, 43, 47 — conveyance to distant, 80 Churchyards, closing of, 50, 80 Churchyard vapours, 54, 58, 60 Coffins, 52 Columbaria, 16, 75, 124 Common graves during epidemics, 6 Cost of modern system of cremation, 114 — — old systems, 91, 100 Cremation and burial practised together, 5, 9, 11, 70 — — medical science, 23 — amongst ancient peoples, 4, 11, 19, 35 — during epidemics, 6 — half-and-half schemes of, 40, 64, 76 — in America, 83 — in Austria, 79 — in battlefields, 18 — in Belgium, 78 — in England, 85 — in France, 75 — in Germany, 82 — in India, 11, 35, 36, 91 — in Italy, 68 — in modern times, 19, 36, 38, 82, 84 — in North America, 37, 101 — in Siam, 98 — in Switzerland, 73 — judicious promotion of, 125 — late experiments on, 82, 90, 97, 102, 106, 113, 115 — modern approved processes, 109, 117 — not opposed to the doctrine of the resurrection, 8, 12, 74 — objections to old systems of, 90, 97 — of condemned food, &c., 22 — of diseased human dead, 68 Cremation of diseased, cattle, 21 — of offensive matters, 22 — societies, 73, 81, 82, 83, 86 — time occupied by, 115 Dangers of burial, 6, 18, 53 — — opening up old burial-grounds, 6 Dead, burial in caves, 29 — — in solid materials, 27 — — in the earth, 11, 30 — drying up of the, 29, 34 — embalming of the, 31, 36, 37, 76, 100, 116 — exposure of the, 24 — petrifaction of the, 27 Diseases caused by churchyards, &c., 56 Family graves, 45 Family receptacles for ashes, 16, 99 Graveyards, draining of, 48 — old, 50 Interment of the ashes, 16, 36, 123 Injudicious promoters of cremation, 2 Judicious promotion of cremation, 125 Laws relating to burial, 41 Mortuary chapel for cremation, 105-118 Objections to cremation, 5, 13, 15 Parkes, Dr., quoted, 53, 59 Poetry upon cremation, 14 Poisoning of the living, 56 — — water supplies, 51 Sanitary origin of cremation, 8 Siemens' cremation apparatus, 105, 109 Sir Henry Thompson on cremation, 23, 77, 85, 106, 114 Time occupied by cremation, 115 Urns, &c., 119 Vaults, burial in, 47, 59 Water-supply, poisoning of, 51 Weight of ashes, 115 Works upon burial, 42, 89 — — cremation, 127

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VIEW OF A SIEMENS' APPARATUS (GERMAN)

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SIEMENS' APPARATUS (ENGLISH PATTERN)

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SKETCH OF MORTUARY CHAPEL

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URNS

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SKETCH OF FAMILY COLUMBARIUM OR NICHE IN PRIVATE CHAPEL

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URNS IN THE CHURCH AND CRYPT.

FOOTNOTES:

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.