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MORTUARIES, CREMATIONS, BURIALS AND EXHUMATIONS
Mortuaries
The two public mortuaries situated in the Borough receive bodies from other authorities'
areas, mainly Greenwich, as well as from Lewisham.
The number of bodies received into the Mortuaries during the year were as follows:

Cremations and Burials
The following statistics relating to cremations and burials are for the year 1st
April, 1965 to 31st March, 1966.

There were 1,282 cremations carried out at Hither Green Crematorium.
One exhumation took place at Hither Green Cemetery.
MEDICAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR LONG-STAY IMMIGRANTS
At ports of arrival long-stay immigrants both Commonwealth and alien, are referred
to medical inspectors and given a pamphlet printed in languages which they
are likely to understand. This is to encourage them to register with a medical practitioner
in their place of residence so that he can arrange for them to go to a mass
radiography unit, a chest clinic or a hospital for X-ray.
The health department is notified of the name and addresses of immigrants entering
the borough with the object of ensuring that at an early date the immigrants are
made aware of how to use the Health Service. An important aim of the department
is to secure by persuasion that those from countries with a high incidence of tuberculosis
have an X-ray of the chest as soon as possible. This applies particularly to
people arriving from the Continent of Asia.
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