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27. MORTUARY AND BURIAL ARRANGEMENTS
PUBLIC MORTUARY
The public mortuary is situated in Petersfield Road, Acton, W.3, and has a capacity
for 40 bodies. The Council is responsible for providing mortuary accommodation when
death occurs in the borough in certain circumstances. These are firstly, when death
follows an accident, and secondly, when the cause of death is unknown and the Coroner
decrees that a post mortem examination shall be carried out by a Home Office Pathologist
703 bodies of residents from the following areas were taken to the mortuary:-
Ealing 492
Hillingdon 48
Richmond uponThames 3
Hounslow 22
Other London Boroughs 100
Other areas 38
One full-time mortuary attendant is employed and arrangements are made with the
London Borough of Hammersmith for bodies to be received there when he is absent for any
reason, and he in turn accepts Hammersmith bodies in the absence of their mortuary
attendant.
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