Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-02

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camp Douglas 600. Gee. 4. Gee.
Total ..., 900. q. ...,,."..101
III 1t takes three years for these
bodies TO decay. and IN most cases 10
Wll, take many more we would have
surrounding our small city 2,lu tester
ing bodies an the time. u an persons
dying from tuberculOa diseases, dlph-
iberia. scarlet fever. smallpox and AN
olhef contagious diseases, were cremat-
el, u would 60 Tar towards stamping
out disease In general and render the
aii ana water more saluburious and
healthy
since the recent Hood az Galveston
where thousands OF bodies We're found
900 tha state of decay (Which all bodies
must undergo that are not buried they
made "a funeral pile and had them ere.
mated at once 10 prevent q pestilence;
many collins and Caskets We're masked
nom their resting place adding horror
tu the situation According 10 Or j.
r. Chadwick OF Boston. Philadelphia
Medic0 Jumll Feb. nth 1900. the
cremation society OF Boston shows a
healthy growth
Iu conclusion Dr. Bower said: ella
Wheeler Wilcox writes Of burial and
cremation as follows For those who
have witnessed the CHASTITY spectacle OF
q modern funeral no description Of that
barbdIlous rite s necessary Who has
not seen 10 AN, the larkaned room
suilng with IFS mingling doors OF flOw-
ers ana dislniectants' the s0mbre hid
eous Casket, the awful ceremony OF
screWing the Ma over the beloved face,
the black army Of pail bearers. the long.
slow, mournful journey 20 the desolate.
disease breeding cemetery; the damn
dark. yaWuIng pit, the lowered coffin.
the sickenlng thud of the earth as dust
returns tO dust Oh could the most
savage race invest death with more ter
FOR than this fr.ghtful custom OF the
civilized world Then follows the long
process OF decay. the darkness. the
gloom the weight of earth upon that
dear breast the grave worms slowly
eating their slimev way into the flesh
that has thrilled under our warm
kisses o, God, are We not cruel 20
our dead
Compare this with the beautiful
ceremony Of cremation A snowy
cloth envelopes the dead. door
swings open noIselessly and the iron
cradle with its burden. clothed as for
its nupual bed rolls through the aper-
ture end disappears IN "a glory Of Grim
son light, as dove sails into the sum-
mer sunset sky and is lost % view.
There is no smoke. no flame. no od0r OF
any Kind; nothing comes IN contact
with the precious form we have loved
but the purity OF Intense heat and the
splendqr OF great light In a few
hours swiftly, noiseIessly with no re-
pulsiye or CHASTITY features In the pro-
cess The earthly part Of our dear one
IS reduced 20 a small heap Of snowy
Hshes
AN hail 10 the dawn Of newer and
higher civilization, which shall substi-
tutr the cleanliness and simplicity Of
cremation for the complicated and
dreadful horrors Of burial
on motion Of DR.. Bascom the follow
ing committee was appointed % draft
resolutions In regard 20 vaccination.
Or Basc0m. Of Salt Lake; Dr. Allen, Of
Provo. and Or Joyce, OF Ogden
AFTERNOON SESSION
The session this afternoon was opened
with paper on Smallpox. with Special
Reference 20 the Prevailing Mild type
Of the Disease"
II S. Scott, Salt Lake city.
Discussion opened by r. d Beatty.
The other subjects presented and dis
Cussg3 Wee. Compound Cumminutod
Fracture OF the Elbow Joint Report OF
Case w. +. Dalby Discussion
0ntned by O. W Perkins, Ogden.
a case Of Cancer Of the stomach
+. +. Roo Salt Lake Discussion
opened by s. IT, Allen Provo. and
Union Worthingtou, salt Lake City.
The pupil and It's arrangements I'm
Diseases Of the Eye. l.. w. Snow.
Salt Lake Discussion opened by S l.
Brick ogden, and q. b. Pfoutz. Salt
Lake CITY
President 4. S. Bower win give a re-
ceptiOn to- the members OF the State
Medical society at his home. 443 east
First South street from to 10 o'clock
this evening