Thanks to the leadership of Gen. Wu Te-chen, Mayor of Shanghai, plans were under way to rectify this evil, Dr, Wu said. A committee Infiiential men, who In April 1935, considered the construction of an up-to-date crematorium at Kisngwan, met-on June 11. The gathering was presided over by the Commissioner of Health of Greater Shanghai.
"At the meeting It was"announced that a suitable piece of ground measuring 20 mow (3% English acres) at Kiangwan had been allotted for the purpose, and that if the public Would subscribe an initial building find. of $20,000, the Municipality would contribute' another $20,000 for the purpose of erecting an electric furnace, temple of worship, and pleturesque garden, The management of the crematorium would be undertaken. by the municipal authorities, fasted by the Chinese "Cremation "Society, which It was decided to form then and there. The principal objects of this society are:—1.—To promote a sanitary, economical and aesthetic method of disposal of the Z—To: help the government and people of China in ullizing fertile land
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