One example was given by Dr. Wa of the benefit of cremation, Tt was personal experience in 1011 when fatwas sent to Harbin to combat the Dneumonie "plogue, episemic, "which Wray calming a Aesth toll of 100 dally the native ey of Puchlatlen, 'The sik were gelling too many for the medical stof to Took after' and the dead were ying unburied "in the Sountry fields slong stretch of one Sr'two miles because the ground was frozen to a depth of seven. feet. to wite for permission to cremate the The only course open to him was
cospaes, Dr. Wa said. Eventually Sbigined it and huge "funeral pile, Tels of 100 corpecs, were made and burnt, The morality rate from the plague thenceforth made a sary deci from February 1 uni teached rust the end of the month. arable land of China by graveyards, Dr. Wu Lien {eh director of the National Quaran-Service, said on Thursday when speaking on "Cremation" at the weekly luncheon gathering of Rotardans at the Metropole Hotel.
Cremation was practised in China with the introduction of Budduism in the telg of Wu 'Ti of the Han dynasty, A.D. 25-57, Marco Poi (1254-1924) "in his "travels" spoke again and again of Chinese iddaters burning their dead. 'The practi ceased, however, when Confuclanis which' taught the sacredness and inviolability of the human body in the phrase "Do not dare to injure the body, hair and skin inherited from your parents," held sway in the county, emperor issued an el forbidding the burning of the dead, and though devoted Buddhists con-Unued the practice, the masses started to bury their dead,
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