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Filtration plants are installed at the Plumstead, Woolwich and Eltham Baths
and the chemical and bacteriological content of the water is regularly examined.
Open-air Pools. The two open-air swimming pools in the Borough, in Eltham
Park and in the Victoria Gardens, North Woolwich, are provided by the London
County Council. Filtration plants have been installed at both these pools.
The Borough Council have a paddling pool at the Middle Park Estate, and there
is another paddling pool in Eaglesfield, Shooters Hill, belonging to the London
County Council.
Cemeteries. Three cemeteries are owned by the Woolwich Borough Council
and administered by the Town Clerk's Department. These are situate at Eltham
and Plumstead, the two in Plumstead being known as Woolwich Cemetery and
Plumstead Cemetery. Roughly, each cemetery serves the area after which it is
named.

Proposed Joint Crematorium. The Council in 1939 decided to establish a crematorium
in Eltham Cemetery jointly with the Boroughs of Bexley and Erith
and the Urban District Council of Chislehurst and Sidcup, but owing to the war
the Council could not proceed.
During 1949 the Crayford Urban District Council asked to be included in the
scheme, and this was agreed by the constituent authorities.
Since the cessation of hostilities the Borough Council has made several
approaches to the Minister of Health for sanction to proceed with the scheme, but
in view of the need for economy in capital expenditure, it was not possible to obtain
sanction to proceed during the year.
Churchyards. The parish churches of Woolwich and Eltham, and the old parish
church of Plumstead, each have an extensive churchyard, but burials are confined
solely to Eltham, where only old vaults and graves are now opened. The parish
churchyard of St. Mary's, Woolwich, has been laid out as informal Rest Gardens,
and a plan has been submitted for a similar layout of the St. Nicholas' Churchyard,
Plumstead, once parish church of Plumstead, with flower beds and seats.
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