The Sun | August 19, 2009
By GRAEME WILSON
The chilling proposals are spelled out in a Home Office document discussed at a meeting of Whitehall officials and council leaders last month.
It warns emergency plans may be needed in areas where there are not enough graves to cope.
The 59-page document talks about using "a grave that is for a number of unrelated persons, excavated mechanically in advance and designed for efficient preparation and use"
multiple graves and consecutive burials".
But it stressed there must still be "marking of the position of individual burials."
The document is called A Framework for Planners Preparing to Manage Deaths.
The meeting heard the number of burials could more than double within a few weeks of a full-blown pandemic.
It heard a presentation on the Home Office guidance from John Barrelled, a senior official from Westminster City Council.
The document warned some cemeteries "may experience shortage of grave space, in particular in inner city areas".
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