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Of these, the Crematorium Sub-Committee favoured land forming part
of Pear Wood, Wood Lane, Stanmore. The Middlesex County Council
Planning Committee, however, refused the Council's application for
planning permission for the erection of a crematorium on any one of
these four sites.
Other proposals considered were the erection of a crematorium on
burial land at Carpenders Park, the erection of a crematorium on the
former Northwick Park golf course and the sharing of the Ruislip/Northwood
and Uxbridge Breakspear Crematorium, Ruislip. At their September
meeting the Crematorium Sub-Committee recommended that the question
of sharing these facilities at Breakspear Crematorium be looked into;
that the County Council be asked to consider making available part of
the Northwick Park open space for the erection of a crematorium, and
that in the meantime, further consideration of the four sites in the district
be deferred.
Burial
Under Section 50 of the National Assistance Act, 1948, the Council
can arrange for the burial or cremation of any person who has died or has
been found dead in their area if no other suitable arrangements are being
made.
Each year there has been a small number of requests for these arrangements
for burial to be made. In this last year there was only one.
Mortuary
The district is served by the one mortuary at Peel Road which is
under the care of a full-time mortuary attendant, Mr. C. Russell, of 30
Lome Road, Wealdstone.
The arrangement by which bodies from the Wembley area were
received in the Corporation mortuary at a charge of £2 each continued
until the new mortuary in Wembley was ready.
During the year 379 bodies were received in the mortuary, 102 of
these being from Wembley. Post-mortem examinations were carried out
on all but six of the bodies admitted. Inquests were held on seventy-one.