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Wandsworth 1902
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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In the case of a person not being an inhabitant or ratepayer of the
parishes of Clapham, Putney, Streatham and Wandsworth, the foregoing
fees and payments for interments, for the exclusive right of burial in an
earthen grave, and for the right to construct a vault or walled grave with
the exclusive right to burial in perpetuity will be doubled in the
Wandsworth and Streatham cemeteries and trebled in the Putney Vale
cemetery, except to members of the purchaser's family.
Re-Opening Fees.
The fees for second and subsequent interments in earthen graves,
walled graves, or vaults in respect of which an exclusive right of burial
has been granted, prior to the coming into operation of this Table of Fees,
16th March, 1903, will be the same as the re-opening fees in force at the
time such exclusive right of burial was granted.
The grave spaces above referred to are 9ft. x 4ft. Additional
space will be granted at corresponding rates upon application to the
Council. No monument shall cover a larger space in grounds A, B, C, D,
E, and F, than 7 ft. x 3 ft. ; and in grounds G, and H, than 6 ft. 6 in.
x 2ft. 6 in., without special permission from the Council.
| £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exhumation in purchased ground | |||
| Do. in common ground | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Certificate of burial | 0 | 2 | |
| Search fee | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Grounds A, B, C and D | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| „ E and F. | 0 | ||
| „ G, H, and common interments | 0 | 0 | |
| Interment more than ten minutes late | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Re-turfing grave | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Turfing do. and with mould for planting | 0 | 0 | |
| Maintaining turfed grave in order, per annum | 0 | 0 | |
| Planting grave, with suitable plants or shrubs per annum | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| Do. without monument, with suitable plants or shrubs per annum | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Do. brick grave or vault, not, exceeding 9 ft. x 4 ft.; beyond that by special agreement | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| Planting with summer flowers | 0 | 0 | |
| Do. spring and summer flowers | 0 | 10 | 0 |
Turfed or planted graves maintained in perpetuity, by special agreement.
Graves exceeding 8 ft. in depth :—
Up to 10 ft. 5/-; up to it ft. 12/-; up to 14 ft. 24/-.