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LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT 1956
SECTION 63 (Bylaws as to artificial lighting of common staircases). Under
the provisions of these Bylaws one informal and four formal notices were served
in respect of tenement houses.
NOISE ABATEMENT ACT, 1960
Some complaints of noise and/or vibrations were received necessitating
286 visits and observations being made, as a result of which four nuisances
were discovered; four informal notices and four statutory notices were served
and in all cases the nuisances were abated or improvements were effected.
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT.. 1948
SECTION 50 (Burial or cremation of the dead). This section places upon 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.
Number of burials carried out 48
Number of such burials referred by the Hackney Group (No. 6) Hospital
Management Committee 23
Total cost of burials £458 10s.0d
Pull cost reclaimed (from liable relatives, death grants, deceased
persons' estates and Hospital Management Committee) 39
Part cost recovered (from liable relatives, death grants, deceased
persons' estates and other sources) 1
Full cost of burial borne by the Borough Council 8
PREVENTION OF DAMAGE BY PESTS ACT, 1949
Complaints of infestation received 1,514
Premises found to be infested 1.414
Drains examined 82
Drains smoke tested 199
Drains found to be defective 22

No charge is made for the treatment of private dwellings but accounts
are rendered in all cases where business premises are treated.
The Borough Engineer and Surveyor's Department undertakes the treatmentof
sewers and one such treatment using sodium fluoracetate was carried out during
the year.
PET ANIMALS ACT, 1951
There are ten licensed pet shops, including stalls in open markets, in the
Borough to which eleven visits were made; no infringement of the conditions in
the annual licences granted by the Council was discovered.
RAG FLOCK AND OTHER FILLING MATERIALS ACT, 1951
No new premises were registered for the use of filling materials, but an
annual licence to store rag flock was renewed in respect of one premises.