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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 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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MORTUARY.
Seventy-eight bodies (43 males, 35 females) were deposited, and 40 post-mortem
examinations carried out at the mortuary during the year.
CREMATORIUM.
One hundred and six certificates authorising cremation at the St. Marylebone
Crematorium, Finchley, were issued—86 by the Medical Referee and 20 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 1939 one such certificate was
issued in respect of a body transported to Italy.