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Burials to the number of 30 were arranged by the Department at a total
cost of £289 12s. 6d. and at the end of the year the cost or part cost thereof
had been recovered as follows:-
£ s. d.
(1) Pull cost recovered in 17 cases:-
(a) from liable relatives, death grant and deceased persons*
estates (14) 133 15 0
(b) from death grant, etc., balance from Hackney Hospital
(3) 26 12 0
(2) Part cost recovered in 6 cases from liable relatives,
death grants, deceased persons5 estates and other sources 45 5 2
(a) account outstanding (1) 4 18 0
(b) balance irrecoverable - no liable relative (5) 15 17 10
(3) No payment made in 7 cases:
(a) account outstanding (2) 15 8 0
(b) no liable relative (3) 33 15 0
(c) "written off" by Public Health Committee (2) 14 1 6
HOMERTON HIGH STREET STORES, The Public Health Department has the use of the
second floor of the Borough Council" s depot at 186 Homerton High Street. The
department's stores are housed on this floor, and also, pending disposal, the
furniture and effects of deceased persons who have been buried by the Council
in accordance with the provisions of the National Assistance Act, 1948.
Summary of the work of sanitary inspection other than of food premises -
Inspections of Dwelling Houses:
Complaints 5,079
Housing Acts, 1936-1949 745
Housing Applications 401
Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954 -
Certificates of Disrepair and Revocation Certificates 517
Infectious Disease 132
New Buildings (Water Certificates) 607
Vermin 239
Other Inspections:-
Appointments, interviews and special visits 1,273
Common Lodging Houses 12
Factories Act, 1937 - Factories 1,201
Outworkers' premises 1,295
Offensive Trades 29
Prevention of Damage by Pests Act, 1949 413
Rag and Bone Dealers' Premises 54
Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials Act, 1951 65
Shops, other than food premises 328
Smoke Nuisance - observations 1,971
Static Water Tanks 78
Vacant sites 342
Effluvia investigations 159
Noise investigations 185
Premises in which defects were found 3,448
Reinspections (all forms of inspection) 28,820
Notices served:-
Contraventions of Bylaws 506
Examination of Drains 221
Factories Act, 1937 74