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SECTION 146 (Bylaws with respect to certain businesses). Inspections
were made of the fourteen premises at which the business of rag and bone dealer
was carried on but no contravention of the relevant bylaws was discovered.
SECTION 157 (Application for lodging house licences) The Council again
renewed the licence granted in respect of the one lodging house in the Borough,
which has sleeping accommodation for 133 men.
SECTION 167 (Provision of baths and washhouses)„ The following baths
and washhouses are provided by the Council:-
Public Laundry Eastway
Slipper Baths Lower Clapton Road
Wardle Street
Gay hurst Road
Shacklewell Lane
Englefield Road
Eastway
Swimming Baths Lower Clapton Road (three indoor baths)
Vapour and Aeratone Baths Lower Clapton Road
One open air swimming bath in London Fields is provided and maintained
by the London County Council
SECTION 234 (Provision of Mortuaries). The Council's Public Mortuary adjoins
the Churchyard of the Parish Church of St. John-at-Hackney. Refrigerated
accommodation for 15 bodies is provided and there is a large, well equipped
Post-Mortem Room as well as a combined Chapel/Viewing Room. The Mortuary
Keeper resides in a lodge attached to the premises.
Since 1956 this Mortuary has received bodies from the boroughs of Hackney,
Stoke Newington, Bethnal Green and Shoreditch and the cost of the Mortuary is
borne on a population basis by the four authorities.
Shore- Bethnal Stoke Residents
ac ney ditch Green Newington of other Total
residents residents residents residents areas
Number of bodies received 331 55 83 75 89 633
(i) to await burial ..3 - 9 - 1 13
(ii) to await post-mortem
examination 328 55 74 75 88 620
Cause of death certified
by Coroner 297 51 69 61 76 554
Number of inquest cases 31 4 5 14 12 66
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1953
SECTION 17 (Sampling of trade effluents), Trade effluent samples to the
number of 92 were submitted to the Scientific Branch of the Public Health
Department of the London County Council who undertake the analyses at a cost to
the Borough Council of £1 per sample; fourteen of these samples were reported
on as being unsatisfactory. The occupiers of the premises from which
unsatisfactory samples were obtained were interviewed and advised as to the
action necessary to remedy the unsatisfactory discharge Copies of the
Reports on the analysis of all samples were sent to the Borough Engineer
and Surveyor for his information and any action he might consider necessary
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1954
SECTION 12 (Obligation to provide dustbins). Notices requiring the owners
concerned to provide additional dustbins were served in respect of four premises.