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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Hackney 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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Table: The nearest crematorium to Hackney is installed at the City of London Cemetery, Ilford, and the charges are :—

The nearest crematorium to Hackney is installed at the City of London Cemetery, Ilford, and the charges are :—

£s.d.
For cremating the remains of any person (this fee includes all attendance after the body is placed on the catafalque table by the undertaker, a plain urn for the remains, and storage of the latter for a period of three months)4181
Clergy fee in respect of a burial service before, at, or after cremation0132

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LABORATORY FACILITIES.
The arrangements made with the Camberwell Research
Laboratories and the Royal Institute of Public Health for bacteriological
examinations have been continued.
Full details of bacteriological examinations during the year
will be found in the section of this Report dealing with infectious
diseases.
The bacteriological examination of foodstuffs is also carried
out at these laboratories as required.
A minimum of 900 samples are purchased annually under the
Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928, and submitted for
chemical analysis to the Joint Public Analysts, Leo Taylor, Esq.,
F.I.C., and D. T. Lucke, Esq., B.Sc., A.I.C.
Particulars of the samples collected diu-ing the year together,
with the results of the analyses made, appear on page 89.
INSULIN TREATMENT OF DIABETES.
During the year under review the Ministry of Health agreed
to the extension, for a further period of twelve months, of the
arrangements made under Section 77 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, for the provision of insulin for the treatment of poor
persons suffering from diabetes.
Under the arrangements made by the Council, applications for
the supply of insulin without cost to the patients are submitted to
the Public Health Committee upon receipt of a recommendation
from a physician of any hospital.
The cost of the insulin is 1s. 0d. per 100 units.
At the end of the year one patient was being treated at the
expense of the Council.
LEGISLATION IN FORCE IN THE AREA.
No addition was made in 1933 to the local legislation relating
to the public health.