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National Assistance Act, 1948 — Section 50
BURIAL OF THE DEAD
During the year one case was dealt with under this Section where
a person died and where no arrangements had been made for the
disposal of the body. The Council made the necessary arrangements
for the funeral and obtained the appropriate sum from the Ministry
of Pensions and National Insurance in respect of the Death Grant.
SHOPS ACT
Routine inspections of shops under this Act have continued and no
serious contraventions have been observed during the year Some of
these inspections have to be made outside office hours and on Sundays
in order to ascertain that the closing hours and the provisions regarding
Sunday trading are being observed.
FACTORIES
Routine visits to factories and outworkers for the purpose of the
Factories Act were made during the year and a total of 229 inspections
were made.
Two contraventions of the Act were found and notices were served
on the occupiers of the premises. The number of factories without
mechanical power has remained at three. The small number of these
factories can quite easily be understood when the definition of
" mechanical power" is such that an electric drill will exclude a
factory from this category.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND FOOD POISONING
The number of visits made under this heading during the year is
more than double that of 1960 and this is entirely due to an outbreak
of Sonne Dysentery at Monken Hadley School early in the year.
In this small Church School with 95 pupils, 45 were affected, and
in addition a further 24 cases were notified from members of their
families (11 adults and 13 children). Two specimens of faeces were
examined from every child and member of the staff of the school and
where positive results were reported specimens obtained from every
member of the child's family. All positive cases were excluded from
school until they had received treatment and two negative specimens
obtained. Arrangements were made with the school authorities for
the conveniences to be cleaned and disinfected four times a day and
subsequently for some works of repair to be carried out. The outbreak
lasted some six weeks.
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