The Cremation of the Dead
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Hugo Erichsen, M.D., considers the cremation of the dead from an æsthetic, sanitary, religious, historical, medico-legal and economical standpoint. The text reports that a crematorium was erected at Florence, on the Venini system, and that it cremates a body in 70 minutes. The text says the New York Cremation Society was organized in the city of New York on March 8, 1881.
A quoted passage says that Mr. William Eassie affirms that, according to a report of the French Academy of Medicine, the putrid emanations of Père la Chaise, Montmartre, and Montparnasse have caused frightful diseases of the throat and lungs. A further passage records that on Feb. 9, 1874, the railroad tunnel under the cemetery of Père la Chaise at Paris, France, caved in.
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- Hugo Erichsen
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- 158
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- English
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