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I'ather in their power. He can at present best protect himself by 

 oarefully providing for a particular examination of his corpse 

 before burial, even if he suspect nothing. Let those concerned 

 look to it. 



The dismissal on Black Wednesday, in 1S78, of all the country 

 coroners, who have never been replaced, must have materially 

 increased these risks to the provincial pouplation. 



The precautions which Cremationists recommend, and for their 

 own protection, take, make cremation far safer now than burial, 

 as I think I have shown ; for burial, under the present lax and 

 absurd system, offers — I repeat, a premium to murder; and if 

 the apathy of the people may be excused by ignorance or thought- 

 lessness, the neglect of those to whom they entrust such matters 

 seems the more culpable. 



The Cremation Committee of the Royal Society of Victoria 

 strongly recommended that no system (of disposing of the dead) 

 be tolerated, which does not provide amply strict examinations to 

 obviate the possibility of such facts passing undetected. 



