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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

Marylebone 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: MORTUARY.The number of bodies deposited from 1st January to 31st December, 1938, was as follows:—TABLE 16.

MORTUARY.

The number of bodies deposited from 1st January to 31st December, 1938, was as follows:—

TABLE 16.

Males.Females.Total.No. of post-mortems held.No. of infectious cases.
34326639—

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CREMATORIUM.
The St. Marylebone Crematorium, situated at East End Road, Finchley, has
now been in use for over a year. Cremation facilities are available for St. Marylebone
and other districts at fees ranging from three to five guineas.
In pursuance of No. 10 of the Cremation Regulations, 1930, the Secretary of
State appointed the Medical Officer of Health to be Medical Referee, and the Deputy
Medical Officer of Health to be Deputy Medical Referee, in respect of the Crematorium
and during the year 91 certificates authorising cremation were issued—79 by the
Medical Referee, and 12 by the Deputy Medical Referee.
TRANSPORTATION OF BODIES ABROAD.
In certain cases where bodies are transported overseas, the Medical Officer of
Health of the district in which death has taken place is called upon to furnish to
the shipping company a certificate to the effect that the body is not infectious and
that it has not been exposed to infection. During 1938 one such certificate was
issued in respect of a body transported to Australia.