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toy from any premises used for the business, or from any cart, barrow or other
vehicle or receptacle used for the collection or disposal of rags and bones, etc., or
in any other way connected with the business.
Two summonses were taken out during the year. The results of these proceedings
will be found in Table No. 23. In three cases it was not possible to serve the summonses
Rao Flock Act.—Six samples of rag flock were taken for analysis. Such material
must comply with the Rag Flock Regulations, in which it is laid down that the
soluble chlorine in the form of chlorides must not exceed 30 parts of chlorine in
100,000 parts of flock. All the samples complied with the Regulations, as the result
of analyses show, the number of parts of chlorine being, respectively, 2.1; 4.4;
3.6; 3.2; 8.6; 13.8.
Mortuaries.—The Public Mortuary is in Sunbury Street, Woolwich, but in
recent years this has been little used, owing to the centralisation of Coroners' Courts
in London. Inquests on Woolwich cases are held in Lewisham or Greenwich. The
temporary mortuary in Eltham was still less used and at the suggestion of the
Commissioner of Police, the Council considered as to its future user, and with his
concurrence finally decided to close it. It was closed from the 30th June.
The following Table shows the use made of the mortuaries during the year:—

Cemeteries.—The Council own three cemeteries within the Borough, two in
Plumstead and one in Eltham. The two in Plumstead are known respectively as the
Woolwich Cemetery and the Plumstead Cemetery, the Woolwich one being divided
into two portions, the Old and the New. Eltham Cemetery was opened for interments
in April, 1935. Burials also take place in Eltham Churchyard, and rarely in a private
burial ground within the grounds of Christchureh Priory in Eltham High Street.
In the following Table are shown the numbers of interments in the different
graveyards. The information in the case of the cemeteries is given through the
courtesy of the Town Clerk, and, in the case of the Eltham Churchyard, through that
of the Vicar of Eltham.