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Mortuaries and Cemeteries. In Tables Nos. 32 and 33,
which follow, details are given with regard to the Mortuaries
and Cemeteries. The information regarding the interments
at the Woolwich and Plumstead Cemeteries and the Eltham
Churchyard, is given through the courtesy of the Town Clerk
and the Vicar of Eltham. Burials in the Plumstead Churchyard
are limited by a Home Office Order of 1893, and in
each case 24 hours' notice of any proposed interment has
to be given to the Medical Officer of Health. The number
of interments in this Churchyard is steadily decreasing and
the number last year (8) is the lowest yet recorded. When
an exhumation licence has been granted, the Medical Officer
of Health is notified by the Home Office in order that he may
be in a position to take any necessary action in the interests
of public health. During the year four copies of such licences
were received, and in each case a Sanitary Officer was present
at the exhumation.