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The Exhumation of Human Remains.
By a decision of the Secretary of State, arrived at on the recommendation
of the Ministry of Health, it has been resolved that whenever
an exhumation licence is issued by the Home Office under Section 25
of the Burial Act, 1857, the Medical Officer of Health for the district
concerned shall be notified, in order that he may be in a position to
take (under his general power) any action that may appear to him to
be necessary in the interests of the Public Health.
In all the cases where a licence is granted for the removal of
human remains from the Hampstead Cemetery, the Sanitary Staff acted
in co-operation with the officials of the Cemetery in order that the
Public Health might be duly safeguarded.
Proposed new Public Health Station.
The Public Health Committee having decided that it was desirable
for the Disinfecting and Cleansing Stations and Public Mortuary to be
permanently established in a central position in the Borough, together
with the addition of a Coroner's Court, advantage was taken of the
opportunity that presented itself for acquiring a site in the Electricity
Yard. On the motion of the Chairman of the Public Health Committee—Mr.
Councillor Herbert Marnham—the Borough Council on
June 26th resolved " that a Special Committee of the Council be
appointed to consider and report on the best way to utilise the vacant
land at the Electricity Yard, not now required for electric lighting
purposes." On 3rd November the Special Committee reported that, in
their opinion, the requirements of the Public Health Department should
be provided for on a portion of the Yard on the north side of the
entrance from Lithos Road, and with this opinion the Public Health
Committee agreed.
On 18th December the Council authorised the Public Health Committee
to engage the services of an Architect to draw up plans for the
proposed new Station.