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Poplar 1963

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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SHOPS ACT, 1950.
No exemption certificates under the Act were issued during the year.
PHARMACY AND POISONS ACT, 1933.
A list of persons who sell poisons included in Part II of the Poisons
list is maintained under the provisions of the Pharmacy and Poisons Act, 1933.
The number of persons on the list at the end of 1963 was 51.
RKG FLOCK AND OTHER FILLING MATERIALS ACT, 1951.
This Act requires the registration of premises upon which a business is
carried on involving the use of filling materials. The number of premises
registered is 10.
This Act also requires the licensing of premises for the storage of rag
flock.
PET ANIMALS ACT, 1951.
Licences have been issued in respect of 2 premises within the borough.
HAIRDRESSERS AND BARBERS.
The total on the register at the end of the year was 59 persons and 51
premises.
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT, 1948, SECTION 50.
Burials carried out under the provisions of this Act totalled 5 adults
and 2 stillborn children.
The total cost was £79 1s. 3d., of which £79. 1s. 3d. was recovered.
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT, 1948, SECTION 47
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1951, SECTION 1.
Once again it gives me great satisfaction to report that on no account
was it necessary to resort to the powers of compulsory removal of any old
person.
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