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EXHUMATION AND RE-INTERMENT OF BODIES.
St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Harrow Road.
During the year licences were granted by the Secretary
of State for the exhumation and removal of the bodies of
nine persons from the catacombs or graves in St. Mary's
Cemetery.
Two of the bodies were re-interred in St. Mary's Cemetery,
Harrow Road, one was removed for re-interment in Brompton
Cemetery, London, one was removed to Peru for re-interment
in the Cementerio General, Lima, one was removed to the
Irish Free State for re-interment in Dublin, one was removed
to Chile, and one was removed to Venezuela.
The remains of a person who died in Madeira in May,
1921, were interred at the Kensal Green Roman Catholic
Cemetery.
The following conditions were attached to the licences:—
(1) That the removal be effected with due care and
attention to decency early in the morning.
(2) That freshly made ground lime be freely sprinkled
ever the coffin, the soil, or any matter that may be
offensive.
In those cases where the remains were removed to other
countries, it was required that they be placed in a lead lined
shell which shall be hermetically sealed.
Whilst in other cases the remains were contained in well
pitched shells and entirely surrounded by four inches of newly
made vegetable charcoal in powder.