Small firms had to pay a lot for hearses, cars and embalming, and for their premises, but they would do perhaps only two hours work a day.
In another instance, the mains water supplies of a funeral parlour was insufficiently protected against backflow contamination which could occur while chemicals were being used during the embalming process.
I need not describe again what is needed to overcome health and quarantine regulations, to provide an embalming service in some cases and to contrive some reliable arrangements for transport.
There is a great deal of danger in embalming in tropical countries if a man has died from a tropical disease.
There are, of course, doctors, but it is not a doctor's duty to carry out embalming.
I am not asking that we should merely concentrate on preserving and embalming a dead past, however glorious that past may be.
To introduce an embalming service for those who die in other places overseas would not necessarily make it possible to repatriate all bodies.
He asked about the zinc liner and the embalming fee.
