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MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS
Thirty-seven prospective members of the staff were examined
to determine their fitness to enter the Council's service and
superannuation scheme, and two medical examinations were carried
out on behalf of other local authorities, making a total of
thirty-nine for the year.
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT, 1948.
Section 50 of the National Assistance Act, 1948, places
responsibility upon a local authority to arrange the burial or
cremation of any person in respect of whom no other suitable
arrangements can be made.
The Borough Council does not, however, arrange for cremations
to be carried out. In some instances it has not always been possible
to trace any surviving relatives, although every possible line of
enquiry has been fully pursued, but there is always the possibility that
a member of the deceased's family might ultimately be contacted and
who would not express approval to cremation having been performed.