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Disposal of the Dead
Interments of Carshalton residents take place at the cemetery of the
Carshalton and Merton & Morden Joint Burial Board situated in Lower
Morden, except for those who are buried outside the area. During the year
383 individuals were buried there of whom 53 were residents of Carshalton.
In the adjoining Battersea cemetery, the North-east Surrey Crematorium
Board operate a crematorium where in 1962 1,264 cremations took
place of which 63 were from Carshalton.
The Council maintains a mortuary in Mill Lane which is fully equipped
with refrigeration storage and facilities for post mortem examination.
They have a financial agreement with the Beddington & Wallington and
the Coulsdon & Purley Councils, whereby bodies from both these districts
are received into the Mill Lane Mortuary. The number of bodies, on all
of which autopsies were performed, admitted during the year was as follows:-
Ambulance Removals 41
By the Police 3
Via Local Hospitals 17
From Carshalton Homes 59
From Beddington & Wallington 40
From Coulsden & Purley 67
From Other Districts 6
233
The number is 47 higher than in 1961 and has increased two fold in
the last 10 years.
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