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suitable arrangements for the disposal of the body have been or are
being otherwise made.
In these circumstances, the deceased persons are buried in the
St. Pancras Cemetery. The expenses incurred in each case amount
to a total of £18 15s. 6d. This charge is inclusive of the undertaker's
fee and the cemetery fee, and may, of course, vary from time
to time. The Local Authority may be able to recover part or all of
this sum from the estate of the deceased person.
Four burials were carried out by the Council in accordance
with the provisions of this Section during the year.
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." Five 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 public health
inspectors, in order to ascertain that the conditions of the licences
were complied with.
Laundry Service for the Incontinent
The laundry service, which commenced in 1957, continued to
operate in the Borough. The service has been set up to assist in the
problems concerning incontinent persons. It operates in accordance
with the provisions of Section 42 of the Middlesex County Council
Act, 1956, which deals with, amongst other things, the cleansing of
soiled articles.
The washing machine is installed at the Disinfecting Station
and arrangements are made for articles to be collected and
delivered twice weekly. The practice is for collections to be made
on Tuesdays and Fridays, and for deliveries, on Wednesdays and
Saturdays.
The cost of the service is borne by the local authority. The
only stipulation made is that the garments or bedding involved must
not be of a type which could be accepted by a commercial laundry.
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