Cremation

Usage of burning the dead, common to the ancient Scand in avians, Celtæ, Sarmatians, Scythians, Thracians, Phrygians, and the later Greeks and Romans till ab. 400. It is still general throughout s. and e. Asia and has lately been re-introduced in the West as a sanitary reform. Italy took the lead in the movement ab. 1866, crematoria being established at Padua, Milan, Lodi, Cremona, Brescia, Rome, and Varese. By Dec. 31, 1886, 788 bodies had been burned. The Cremation Society of England was started 1874, and similar societies exist in IMG:content-1022.png:[graphic] IMG:content-1023.png:[blocks in formation] 1. First stage of active creep. 2. Second, do. 3. Third, do. 4. Fourth, do. 5. The metal ridge closed, and the creep beginning to settle. 6 and 7. The creep settled, the metal ridges being closely compre ed, and supporting the roof.