tain cemeteries, or anything essential, ancillary, or incidental thereto, shall extend to and include crematoria.

The Secretary of State shall make regulations as to the maintenance and inspection of crematoria, and prescribing in what cases and under what conditions the burning of any human remains may take place, and directing the disposition or interment of the ashes, and prescribing the forms of the notices, certificates, and declarations to be made under the Statutory Declarations Act, 1835, and also regulations as to the registration of such burnings as have taken place.

Penalties.

Every person who shall contravene any such regulation shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds.

Every person who shall wilfully make any false declaration or representation, or sign or utter any false certificate, shall be liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, not exceeding two years.

Every person who, with intent to conceal the commission or impede the prosecution of any offence, procures or attempts to procure the cremation of any body, or with such intent makes any declaration or gives any certificate under this Act, shall be liable on conviction on indictment to penal servitude for a term not exceeding five years.

NOTE.-Nothing in this Act shall interfere with the jurisdiction of any coroner under the Coroners Act, 1887, or any Act amending the same, and nothing in this Act shall authorize the burial authority, or any person, to create or permit a nuisance.

This Act shall not apply to Ireland.

2. Cremation Regulations by Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1903, under sect. 7 of the Cremation Act, 1902.

Conditions under which Cremations may take place :

1. No cremation except in a crematorium of the opening of which notice has been given to the Secretary of State.

2. It shall not be lawful to cremate the remains of any person who is known to have left a written direction to the contrary.

3. It shall not be lawful to cremate human remains which have not been identified.

4. No cremation shall be allowed until the death of the deceased has been duly registered, except where an inquest has been held, and a certificate given by a coroner in Form E.

5. No cremation shall take place unless application therefor be made, and the particulars stated in the application be confirmed by statutory declaration in accordance with Form A.

NOTE. The application must be signed and the statutory declaration made by an executor or by the nearest surviving relative of the deceased, or if made by any other person, must show a satisfactory reason why the application is not made by an executor or by the nearest surviving relative.

6. No cremation shall take place unless―

(a) A certificate be given in Form B. by a registered medical practitioner who attended the deceased in his last illness, and who can certify definitely as to the cause of death, and a confirmatory

medical certificate in Form C. be given by another medical practitioner, who must be qualified as prescribed in Regulation 9; or

(b) A post mortem has been made by a medical practitioner, expert in pathology, appointed by the cremation authority (or in case of emergency by the medical referee), and a certificate given by him in Form D.; or

(c) An inquest has been held and a certificate has been given by the coroner in Form E.

NOTE.-No cremation shall take place except on the written authority of the medical referee given in Form F., and if it appears to the medical referee that death was due to poison, violence, to any illegal operation, or if there is any suspicious circumstance whatsoever, he shall decline to allow the cremation unless an inquest be held and a certificate given by the coroner in Form E.

F.-1. Customs Consolidation Act, 1876.

Sect. 234. It shall be lawful for the L. G. B. to require that no person on board any ship coming into port in the United Kingdom from, or having touched at, any place out of the United Kingdom abroad where they have reason to apprehend that yellow fever or other highly infectious distemper prevails, shall quit such vessel before the state of health of the persons on board shall have been ascertained, on examination by the proper officer of the customs, at such place or places as may be appointed by the Commissioners of Customs, and before permission to land shall

have been given by such officer, whether or not it shall on or after such examination be found expedient to order such vessel under the restraint of quarantine, and any person so quitting any such vessel shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred pounds; and if the master, pilot, or person in charge of such ship shall not, on arrival at such place, hoist and continue such signal as shall be directed by such order, until the proper officer shall have given permission to haul down the same, he shall forfeit a like penalty.

2. The Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1890, s. 26, sub-s. 2.

The assessment to inhabited house duty of any house built or adapted and used for the sole purpose of providing separate dwellings for persons at rents not exceeding for each dwelling the rate of seven shillings and sixpence per week, and occupied only by persons paying such rents (where the annual value of each dwelling shall not amount to twenty pounds), shall be discharged by the commissioners provided that a certificate of the M. O. H. for the district in which the house is situate, or other medical practitioner specially appointed, shall be produced to them to the effect that the house is so constructed as to afford suitable accommodation for each of the families or persons inhabiting it, and that due provision is made for their sanitary requirements. The M. O. H. on request by the person who would be liable to pay the house duty, shall examine the house, and if due provision has been made as aforesaid, shall certify the same.

G.-Factory and Workshops Act, 1901.

This Act consolidates with amendments the Factory and Workshops Acts..

When one considers that England and Wales are essentially manufacturing countries, and that as a consequence some five or six millions of their population pass a considerable part of their lives in workshops and factories, frequently in large numbers in a very confined and limited space, which not infrequently is full of gases, dust, vapours and other impurities generated by the operations conducted on such premises, the absolute necessity for careful and strict legislation and public surveillance over all such premises must be evident to all.

Summary of the Act of 1901.

The Act provides, inter alia :

1. For the health and safety of all those who work on such premises, by regulating the air space for each worker, and guarding against accidents which might cause death or bodily injury.

2. It arranges the hours of employment for children engaged in textile and non-textile factories and workshops, and those of women and young persons employed in print works and bleaching and dyeing works, as well as determining the holidays (including whole or half-holidays) which should be given.

3. It prohibits:

(a) The employment of any person on the same day inside and outside of a factory or workshop.