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Hackney 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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The cost to the Council was £59 2s. 6d.
| Hackney residents | Shoreditch residents | Bethnal Green residents | Stoke Newington residents | Residents of other areas | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of bodies received | 237 | 70 | 93 | 78 | 89 | 567 |
| (i) to await burial | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 |
| (ii) to await post-mortem examination | 237 | 70 | 92 | 78 | 88 | 565 |
| Cause of death certified by Coroner | 195 | 58 | 84 | 68 | 75 | 480 |
| Number of inquest cases | 42 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 85 |
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1953
SECTION 17 (Sampling of trade effluents). A total of seventy-eight trade
effluent samples were taken from forty-eight premises and 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; ten 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
twenty-six premises: legal proceedings being taken in three instances.
SECTION 18 (Hairdressers and Barbers). Applications for registration
received during the year:-
Persons 16
Premises 9
A total of 231 persons and 164 premises were on the Council's Register
at the end of the year,, Inspections of registered premises to the number
of forty 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. Eleven notices were served under this section, and in the
owners' default the stopped-up drains were cleared by the Council in eight cases.
SECTION 26 (Supply of water to premises where supply cut off). In the
case of two premises where the Metropolitan Water Board had discontinued the
water supply because of defective fittings, notices informing the owners that
the Council proposed to carry out the works necessary to secure reinstatement
of the water supply were served - the necessary works were executed by the
Council in one instance.