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SPECIAL REPORTS of Medical Officer of Health to the Public
Health Cammittee.
Special reports on the following subjects were made to
the Canmittee during the year:
Basement Bakehouses - Quinquennial examination.
The Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954.
Hairdressers and Barbers Premises.
Aged Persons (Dr.Epsom's appointment and Holiday
Home).
Survey of Sanitary Accomodation facilities in
Licensed Premises.
Report of the Committee on Synthetic Detergents.
Report of the Committee on Air Pollution.
DECEASED PERSONS.
Mortuary. Five bodies were received in the Council's
Mortuary during the year.
Inquests. Inquests were held on 54 residents of the
Boroug: 13 deaths were due to suicide, 20 were accidental,
and 21 due to other causes (5 natural causes, 8 misadventure,
6 open verdict, 1 chronic alcoholism, and 1 manslaughter
(person charged acquitted)).
Burials. Section 50 of the Rational Assistance Act,
1948, places a duty on the Council to arrange for the burial
of any persons found dead within the Borough where no private
arrangements have been made.
Thirty-one such burials (25 adults and children over ten,
2 under one month and 4 stillborn babies) took place during
the year at a cost of £310.
There were arrears of charges outstanding at the beginning
of the year amounting to £123, but this gum, together
with the charges for 1954, is partly offset by the recovery
of £103 from the estates of the deceased persons and £250
was written off as irrecoverable.
The requests for burials came from the following sources;
H.M. Coroner's Officer 12
Relatives of the deceased 18
Friends of the deceased 1
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