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4, For the purposes of securing the cleanliness of persons employed in the
premises, in regard to both themselves and their clothing, a hairdresser or
barber shall -
(a) cause every such person to keep his hands and clothes in a clean
condition
(b) provide and maintain suitable and sufficient washing facilities for
the use of such persons,
(c) cause any overalls worn to be clean:
(d) cause every such person who has an open boil or sore on an exposed
part of the body to keep such open boil or sore effectively covered by an
impermeable dressing while attending to any customers
At the end of the year 128 persons carrying on the business of hairdresser
or barber at 112 premises were registered Inspections of hairdressing
establishments totalled 56. and in three instances it was necessary to draw the
attention of occupiers to infringements of the byelaws,.
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT. 1948
SECTION 50 (Burial or cremation of the dead) places upon (in London) the
sanitary authority an obligation to cause to be buried or cremated the body of
any person who has died or been found dead in their area, in any case where it
appears to the authority that no suitable arrangements for the disposal of the
body have been or are being made otherwise than by the authority. Cremation must not be undertaken where the authority has reason to believe that it would
be contrary to the wishes of the deceased The authority is empowered to
recover from the estate of the deceased person or from any person who, for the
purpose of the National Assistance Act, 1948, was liable to maintain the
deceased immediately before his death, expenses incurred in carrying out the
burial or cremation and to receive from the Minister of Pensions and National
Insurance death grants payable under Section 22 of the National Insurance Act,
1946-
As a result of Circular 13/49 issued by the Minister of Health,, the
following arrangements operate in the case of certain persons whose burial a
local authority might otherwise be required to undertake.
Persons dying in hospital
1. Burials to be arranged and paid for by Hospital Management Committees or
Boards of Governors of Teaching Hospitals in the case of
(a) deceased patients whose relatives cannot be traced
(b) those whose relatives are traceable but were not, immediately before
the patient's death, liable for his maintenance under Section 42 (1) of
the National Assistance Act and are not willing to arrange for the burial
and
(c) those whose relatives are unable to obtain a death grant under the
National Insurance Act, 1946 and cannot otherwise afford to arrange for
burial,
2. Where "liable" relatives fail to carry out their responsibility to arrange
for the burial, the matter is referred to the local authority upon whom the
residual duty rests under Section 50 of the Act, in view of the powers of
recovery from the liable relatives conferred upon them by subsection (4) of the
Section.
In eleven instances the Hackney Group (No 6) Hospital Management Commit
tee referred applications for burial to this Department-
Persons dying in Part III accommodation
Arrangements for the burial of persons dying in accommodation for aged and
other persons provided by the County Council under Part III of the National
Assistance Act, 1948 are made by that Authority,