CREMATION IN THE OLD WORLD.
This improved order of procedure for the disposition of mortuary remains continues to gain favor in the estimation of the continental peoples, as signs witnissable in France, Belgium and Italy clearly show. In the latter country a new crematory lias been erected in the Camp Verano at Rome, being the, fourth in the world, and recently the first body was incinerated therein. A correspondent of the New Orleans Times-Democrat speaks of this building and the Italian process as follows :
" In Rome the body, enveloped in a specially made shroud, rests on an iron frame above a fire of wood and coal, and it is believed that no other method of cremation is so simple and at tho same time so cheap and so unobjectionable, The new crematory is a handsome building in tho Egyptian style and consists of three chambers two of which aro above ground. In one of the latter tho actual incineration takes place, and in the other is kept a register for the preservation of full particulars of every corpse that is burned. Beneath these rooms is a spacioug vault in which on shelves are ranged ornamental urns of porcelain, bronze and silver to contain the ashes of tho dead,"
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1798, 26 September 1884, Page 2
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208CREMATION IN THE OLD WORLD. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1798, 26 September 1884, Page 2
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