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SECTION 234 (Provision of Mortuaries) At the Council's Public Mortuary which
adjoins the Churchyard of the Parish Church of St John at Hackney refrigerated
accommodation is provided for fifteen bodies, There is a well equipped Post
Mortem Room a Chapel and a Viewing Room The Mortuary Keeper resides in a
lodge attached to the premises and other accommodation provides a waiting room
and an interviewing room for the use of the Coroner s Officers, Since 1956
this Mortuary has received bodies from the boroughs of Hackney.. Stoke Newington,
Bethnal Green and Shoreditch who share the cost on a population basis
Hackney residents Shore ditch residents Bethnal Green residents Stoke Newington residents Residentsof other Total
areas
Number of bodies received 237 76 9 5 7 3 9 1 572
(i) to await burial 1 1 - - 2
(ii) to await post-mortem
examination 236 76 9 4 7 3 9 1 570
Cause of death certified
by Coroner 19 4 6 1 8 4 59 70 468
Number of inquest cases 42 15 10 14 21 102
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1953
SECTION 17 (Sampling of trade effluents), A total of forty two trade effluent
samples were taken from thirty five premises and submitted to the Scientific
Branch of the Public Health Department of the London County Council who under
take the analyses at a cost to the Borough Council of £1 per sample four 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 ((GNERAL POWERS) ACT, 1954
SECTION 12 (Obligation to provide dustbins). Notices requiring the owners
concerned to provide additional dustbins were served in respect of twenty four
premises
SECTION 18 (Hairdressers and Barbers). Applications for registration received
during the year
Persons 13
Premises 6
A total of 215 persons and 155 premises were on the Council s Register at
the end of the year Inspections of registered premises to the number of
twenty two were carried out
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT 1955
SECTION 25 (Powers as to stopped-up or defective drains etc.). Under the
provisions of this section if it appears to the borough surveyor or medical
officer of health or a public health inspector of a borough that on any premises
in the borough a drain water closet or soil pipe is stopped up he may by notice
require the owner or occupier of the premises to remedy the defect within
forty eight hours from the service of the notice and if the notice is not
complied with the borough council may themselves carry out the work and recover
the expenses incurred in so doing from the person on whom the notice was
served Twelve notices were served under this section, and in the owners
default the stopped up drains were cleared by the Council in four cases, at
a total cost of £16 3s 1d