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Hackney 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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In four instances the Hackney Group (No. 6) Hospital Management Committee
referred applications for burial to this Department.
Persons dying in Part III accommodation
Arrangements for the burial of persons dying in Part III accommodation
provided by the County Council are made by that authority.
Burials to the number of 27 were arranged by the Department at a total cost of £283 8s. 6d., and, at the end of the year, the cost or part cost thereof had been recovered as follows:-
| (1) Full cost recovered in 12 cases: | £ | s. | d. |
| (a) from liable relatives, death grants and deceased persons* estates (10) | 118 | 7 | 0 |
| (b) from Hospital Management Committee (2) | 6 | 3 | 6 |
| (2) Part cost recovered in 11 cases from liable relatives, death grants, deceased persons' estates and other sources: | 80 | 7 | 5 |
| (a) account outstanding (3) | 9 | 15 | 0 |
| (b) balance irrecoverable - no liable relative (7) | 24 | 3 | 7 |
| (c) balance "written off "by Public Health Committee (1) | 5 | 18 | 0 |
| (3) No payment made in 4 cases: | |||
| (a) account outstanding (2) | 22 | 16 | 0 |
| (b) no liable relative (2).. | 15 | 18 | 0 |
| Summary of the work of sanitary inspection other than of food premises: - | |||
| Complaints | 5,049 | ||
| Housing Acts, 1936-1949 | 966 | ||
| Housing Applications | 484 | ||
| Certificates of Disrepair and Revocation Certificates | 145 | ||
| Infectious Disease | 233 | ||
| New Buildings (Water Certificates) | 559 | ||
| Rent Restrictions | 9 | ||
| Vermin | 318 | ||
| Appointments, interviews and special visits | 1,675 | ||
| Common Lodging Houses | 4 | ||
| Factories Act, 1937 - Factories | 1,094 | ||
| Outworkers' premises | 1,042 | ||
| Offensive Trades | 27 | ||
| Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949 | 839 | ||
| Rag and Bone Dealers Premises | 32 | ||
| Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials Act, 1951 | 43 | ||
| Shops, other than food premises | 512 | ||
| Smoke Nuisance - observations | 1,936 | ||
| Static Water Tanks | 84 | ||
| Vacant Sites | 229 | ||
| Premises in which defects were found | 5,804 | ||
| Reinspections (all forms of inspection) | 37,654 | ||
| Notices served:- | |||
| Contraventions of Bylaws | 596 | ||
| Examination of Drains | 190 | ||
| Factories Act, 1937 | 253 | ||
| Intimation Notices | 4,066 | ||