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The blood shed by opening the body may easily be 

 scraped up with the earth and thrown into the iire. It is 

 only in cases of anthrax that any serious objection can be 

 offered to evisceration before cremation, but with care no 

 harm need arise. We have burned over a hundred anthrax 

 bodies by the above method. The greatest care was, of 

 course, taken to collect everything that was shed on the 

 ground and throw it on the fire; further, the hot ashes 

 were subsequently scattered all over the place where the 

 body had been opened. 



Incmerators should exist in all towns and cities, attached 



Fig. 173. — Body an-anged for Field Cremation. 



to slaughter-houses, knackeries, etc., for the destruction of 

 diseased portions, and in the case of knackeries for the 

 incineration of cases of contagious disease. 



Fig. 174 shows an incinerator in use by the Koyal Com- 

 mission on Tuberculosis at Stansted, for the cremation of 

 the carcases of animals which have died, and the destruc- 

 tion of their litter and excreta. 



The charging hole is on the top, and the carcase has first 

 to be cut up. In order to destroy all smell, the gases of 

 combustion are passed through a second furnace — the door 

 of which can be seen at the side — so that before reaching 

 the chimney they are entirely destroyed. 



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