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MORTUARY
The Council's mortuary is still closed and the arrangements continued
with the Wimbledon Borough Council for bodies to be received in the mortuary
at Gap Road, Wimbledon. 46 bodies were received in the mortuary.
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT, 1948
Section 47.
It was necessary to take action under this Act for the removal to
hospital of two persons during the year. Preventive -work is constantly
carried out for old people brought to the notice of the Public Health
Department as being possibly in need of care and attention. Usually it is
found possible to maintain the old people either in their own homes with
the help of the various Statutory and Voluntary Services available, or by
gaining their voluntary admission to hospital or to County Welfare Homes.
Section 50.
Under the provisions of Section 50 of the National Assistarce Act,
1948, it was necessary during the year to arrange for three burials.
ACCIDENTS IN THE HOME
An analysis of returns received from the Ambulance Service is shown
in the table below. These figures show only those accidents to which an

Seven deaths of Maiden residents are recorded as being the result
of accidents other than road accidents.