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Heating Appliances (Fireguards) Act, 1952
Thirty-one visits have been made to premises to ascertain:
that the provisions of the Act were being complied with. In two
shops a number of electric fires were found which did not comply
with the Act. These were withdrawn from sale and warnings were
issued to the proprietors.
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". Three copies of licences for such
removals were received from the Home Office during the year.
The exhumations were 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 instances:
(i) Proceedings were instituted against a second-hand car
dealer for failure to close his premises for the serving of customers,
on a Sunday, in contravention of the Shops Act, 1950. The;
defendant was convicted of the offence and was granted an absolute
discharge on the payment of £5-5-0 costs.
(ii) A firm of bakers was summoned with regard to a
cigarette end found in a currant bun. A fine of £10-0-0 was imposed
and an order to pay £3-3-0 costs was made.
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