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Burial Act, 1857
Licences for the removal of human remains under the above
Act state, inter alia, "It is considered advisable that the Medical
Officer of Health should be notified whenever such a licence is
granted in order that he may be in a position to take (under his
general powers) any action that may appear to him to be necessary
in the interests of public health". Twelve copies of licences for
such removals were received from the Home Office during the year.
The exhumations are carried out in the early hours of the
morning and were visited when necessary by one of the sanitary
inspectors, in order to ascertain that the conditions of the licences
were complied with.
Legal Proceedings
Legal proceedings were taken in the following instance:
Proceedings were instituted against the occupier of premises
for failure to comply with a Statutory Notice served under
Section 75 of the Public Health Act, 1936 and Section 15 of the
Middlesex County Council Act, 1950 requiring the provision of a
dustbin. The Magistrates ordered that the defendant should within
28 days pay the cost of the dustbin supplied (£l-8-6d.) together
with 3/6d. costs, fined the defendant the sum of 10/6d. on his
failure to comply with the notice and awarded the Corporation
£1-1-0d. costs.
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