PARK AND CEMETERY. 
143 
ter of fact only one certificate was 
given. That was in the case of a lady 
aged 75, who was declared by a med- 
ical certificate to be a virgin — “as far 
as that can be established.” This in- 
cident shows to what lengths the op- 
ponents of cremation will go to make 
it unpopular. 
Austria. 
The Central Cremation Society, 
whose headquarters are in Vienna, 
has, according to the official report 
for 1910, 1,172 members. The ten lo- 
cal affiliated societies have 2,029, mak- 
ing a total of 3,201. These figures, as 
compared with those for 1909, repre- 
sent an increase of 6.6 per cent in the 
membership of the Central Society, 
and 23.1 per cent in that of the local 
societies. In the course of 1910 the 
bodies of 115 Austrian subjects were 
burnt in German and Swiss crema- 
tories. 
Belgium. 
There is a Belgian Society for the 
propagation of cremation. Its head- 
quarters are in Brussels. The honor- 
ary presidents are Count d’Alviella, 
senator; M. Paul Janson, a represen- 
tative; and M. Ernest Solvay, a for- 
mer senator. There is also a so- 
ciety of the same kind which has its 
headquarters in Antwerp. These so- 
cieties furnish members the names of 
undertakers who guarantee to have 
cremation carried out with proper pre- 
cautions in Paris or at Mainz. 
Switzerland. 
Cremation was legalized in Switz- 
erland in 1884. There are now ten 
crematories in that country— -at Zurich 
(opened in 1889), at Basel (1898), at 
Geneva (1902), at Saint Gall (1903), 
at Bern (1908), at Lausanne (1909), at 
La-Chaux-de-Fonds (1909) and at 
Winterthur, Brenne, and Aarau, each 
opened in 1911. These crematories 
are the property of societies, with the 
exception of those at Basel, Geneva, 
and Zurich, which belong to the mu- 
nicipalities of those towns. There are 
eighteen cremation societies in Switz- 
erland. The progress of that method 
of disposing of the dead may be 
judged from the fact that in 1889, 
when the first crematory was opened 
at Zurich, 21 bodies were burnt, 
whilst in 1910, when there were seven 
at work, the number of cremations 
was 1,210. 
Other Countries. 
We have no recent statistics about 
cremations in other countries. It 
may be remembered, however, that 
in the United States there were, in 
1908, 38 crematories, in Italy there 
are 28, in France 5, in Sweden and 
Norway 4, in Russia 2, and in Den- 
mark 1. 
Table of Cremations Carried out in Great' Britain since the Opening of Woking Crematorium in 1885. 
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0 
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Os 
QO 
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Os Os 
CO QO 
fv. OO 
Qs Os 
Os 
O 
O 
O 
Os 
0 
Os 
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Os 
0 
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0 
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Total . 
Woking 
26 28 46 
54 
99 
104 
IOI 
125 
150 137 
>73 240 
240 
301 
273 
275 
*143 138 
95 
140 
108 
119 
105 
106 114 
3,440 
Manchester 
3 
30 
47 
58 52 
51 62 
88 
83 
96 
Si 
92 
98 
97 
90 
98 
I l 6 
106 
1 14 
124 
1,586 
Glasgow 
I IO 
l6 12 
l6 
20 
18 
20 
24 
IO 
35 
44 
30 
28 
30 
28 
39 
390 
Liverpool 
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10 27 
23 
40 
40 
54 
35 
40 
35 
46 
34 
32 
46 
37 
50 
551 
Hull 
17 
I 
13 
18 
20 
15 
17 
29 
37 
15 
2 l 
25 
227 
Darlington . . 
2 
I 
7 
4 
13 
8 
6 
9 
9 
12 
72 
Golder’s Green 
5 
1 
158 
2 20 
2 1 2 
298 
2QO 364 421 
415 
542 
2,965 
Leicester 
5 
1 
8 
l6 
12 
I 2 
14 
>9 
l6 
13 
116 
Birmingham 
>9 
22 
25 
33 
18 
3 ° 
38 
44 
230 
Leeds 
l6 
15 
l6 
24 
19 
12 
17 
119 
Ilford 
9 
23 
18 
19 
24 
22 
20 
135 
Bradford 
I 
>4 
1 3 
6 
13 
14 
13 
74 
Sheffield 
7 
6 
18 
12 
18 
8 
10 
79 
Total 
26 28 
46 
54 
99 
107 
131 
172 
20Q 201 
250 341 
367. 444 
445 
451 
477 
569 604 743 
707 
795 855 
840 1,023 
9,984 
THE MILWAUKEE CONVENTION OF THE A. A. C. S. 
AN APPEAL 
To the Members of the Association of 
American Cemetery Superintend- 
ents and Officials and all who are 
interested in Cemetery Work : 
The time for the twenty-sixth annual 
convention, to be held in Milwaukee, 
August 20 to 22, is drawing near, and 
we should all do something to increase 
the membership. There is nothing like 
a personal appeal to get results. 
It is the duty of every superintendent, 
in justice to himself and his fellows, to 
uphold in every possible way this grand 
organization and to do his share towards 
the general advancement which is sure 
to follow the fraternizing of congenial 
spirits, since all our material interests 
are identical. 
This gathering together is the mould- 
ing and assimilating of the concrete 
wisdom of the many, and thus brings 
the members to a lively sense of their 
duties and privileges and a better reali- 
zation of what is possible through the 
medium of a well supported organiza- 
tion to promote the fraternal spirit, 
with a more correct understanding and 
a better appreciation of the nobility of 
our calling. 
People in all walks of life are con- 
stantly looking for something better, 
even in cemeteries. We cannot afford 
to be behind; we must be up with the 
times or be lost in the struggle ; only 
the live fish can breast the current — 
the dead ones go with it. 
Conventions are always an encour- 
agement. They give zest to the work, 
feed the intellect, enrich our litera- 
ture; they are a unifying force, they es- 
tablish and cement friendship and bring 
into an advantageous contact the super- 
intendents from all parts of the country. 
The opportunities presenting them- 
selves at the coming convention in all 
probability will be the largest in the his- 
tory of our society, and the results 
which we hope to see accomplished at 
that time will, we trust, make history. 
The convention of the Progressives, 
just ended in Chicago, will go down in 
history, and there is no good reason 
why the coming convention of Cemetery 
Superintendents, to be held in Milwau- 
kee, August 20-22, should not contrib- 
ute its share to history. Thanking you 
in advance, and hoping to meet you all 
in Milwaukee, I remain. 
Most sincerely yours, 
John J. Stephens, 
President A. A. C. S. 
Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 6th, 1912. 
The programme for the convention of 
■the Association of American Cemetery 
Superintendents at Milwaukee, Wis., 
August 20, 21 and 22, 1912, includes 
eight addresses on subjects of pertinent 
interest to cemetery directors and man- 
agers. Six of these are by charter mem- 
bers of the association who were pres- 
ent twenty-five years ago at Spring 
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, O., when the 
