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dealt with at Hackney School Treatment Centre and Shoreditch Health Centre,
(see page 51).
A total of 151 adults, and 139 children under 5 years were treated for
scabies and 47 adults, and 26 children under 5years of age treated for vermin.
Normally, two treatments are required to clear a case of scabies and one for
vermin.
Arrangements have also been made with other authorities for the treatment
of residents in their areas at the bathing centre.
The Department is also responsible for the disinfestation of verminous
rooms and articles and a total of 1,444 rooms and 364 articles were treated.
In addition approximately six van loads of verminous and other articles were
destroyed.
Certain foreign countries prohibit the importation of second-hand clothing
unless & certificate that the articles have been disinfected can be produced.
A charge is made to private firms wishing to have second-hand clothing disinfected
for this purpose.
OFFENSIVE BUSINESSES
The dressing of fur skins is carried on at 6 premises and is the only
offensive business in the Borough.
COMMON LODGING HOUSES
There are none in the Borough.
MORTUARY
The Council's mortuary adjoins the churchyard of the Parish Church of St.
John-at-Hackney and provides refrigerated accommodation for 15 bodies.
There is an arrangement with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets for receiving
bodies from the Bethnal Green area, the cost being shared on a population
basis.

ANIMALS
The Council has various responsibilities under Acts relating to the protection
and diseases of animals, arrangements have been made for the Corporation
of the City of London, who employ a Veterinary Officer and Inspectors, to undertake
the duties in respect of these Acts on an agency basis, except in the case
of the Pet Animals Act, 1951, and Animal Boarding Establishments Act, 1963,
which this Department administers direct.