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Hackney 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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SUMMARY OF CASES DEALT WITH DURING 1950.
Number of persons reported as being in need of care and
attention 19
Removed to hospital on Magistrate's Order 1
Removed to hospital without recourse to legal proceedings 15
Admitted to Old People's Home 1
Admitted to Metropolitan Society for the Blind Home 1
Died at home 1
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
Legal proceedings instituted during the year under review are
summarised in the table on page 137, and a brief description of
each case is given on pages 124 to 136.
The total of 219 summonses applied for may be classified in categories as follows:—
| Public Health Nuisances | 167 |
| Non-compliance with Magistrates' Orders | 39 |
| Contravention of drainage byelaws | 9 |
| Contravention of ashpit byelaws | 2 |
| Contravention of Prohibition Order | 1 |
| Verminous premises | 1 |
| 219 | |
| The results of these proceedings were:- | |
| Judgments obtained | 142 |
| Adjourned sine die | 3 |
| Dismissed | 4 |
| *Withdrawn | 70 |
| 219 | |
(*In 59 of the cases withdrawn the Council's costs were paid.)
In all three instances where the summonses were adjourned
sine die, the adjournments were sought by the Council; in two
cases because the tenants' illness prevented owners' workmen from
carrying out the necessary work, and in the third case to enable
the Council to take action under Section 11 of the Housing Act, 1936.