COFFIN MAKER’S PLAINT.
BRITISH PUBLIC WON’T DIE. “People are not dying fast enough for us,” said the chairman of a coffin furniture making company in Birmingham last month, in explaining the reasons for the non-payment of a dividend. rte aid not.know whether the provision of old-age pensions had encouraged longevity, but even if it had, he should have'thought, from what lie had read in the papers, that the tilling up of the new tax forms would counterbalanced the effect. Anyhow, the fact remained that doctors, undertakers, and the coffin furniture makers of the country had had a very poor time. He read recently that iive undertakers were . mnmonod at Willcsden, for non-payment of rates owing to bad trade, notwithstanding the increase in the population. Compared with .1900 the total number of deaths for the year ended September last was lower by 121,098, and, compared with last year, the decrease was 36,898. However satisfactory this might be from a humanitarian point of view, it pressed very hard upon those who had'to earn their living in the coffin furniture trade.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3167, 13 March 1911, Page 3
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178COFFIN MAKER’S PLAINT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3167, 13 March 1911, Page 3
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