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brought forward 227
Post operative 6
Deaths in street 11
Bodies brought for accommodation only 5
Total 249
No. of bodies admitted by order of: Coroner 209
Police 4
Ambulance 17
Marie Curie Hospital 15
Others 4
Total 249
During recent years the Council have effected many
improvements in the Public Mortuary and Chapel. The building
has been renovated and equipment brought up to date. The
furnishings of the Chapel have also been renewed. During 1954
the Council continued its policy of Improvement and purchased
a six-body refrigerator chamber to replace the former threebody
chamber.
In appreciation of the co-operation received from the
Council, Leverton & Sons Ltd. presented the Mortuary with a
purple velvet back cloth.
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT, 1948. SECTION 50
During the year 16 funerals were carried out under this
Section. In ten cases the full amount of the funeral expenses
was recovered, either from the estate of the deceased or from
liable relatives. In two cases the funeral expenses were partially
recovered. The remaining four cases comprised two in which there
was a liable relative who was in receipt of National Assistance
and Retirement Pension as an only source of income, one case in
which there was no liable relative and the value of the estate was
nil, and one case of a stillborn baby found on Hampstead Heath.
In these four cases the Council had to bear the whole of the cost
of the funeral.
The total cost of the funerals was £125.6s.5d. and an
amount of £105.12s. 6d. was recovered (£9.l4s. 6d. of which was in
respect of burials which occurred in the previous year).