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dealt with at Hackney School Treatment Centre and shoreditch Health Centre,
(see page 46).
A total of 69 adults, and 98 children under 5 years were treated for
scabies and 27 adults, and 45 children under 5 years of age treated for vermin
at the Millfields Centre. 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
at the bathing centre of residents in their areas.
The Department is also responsible for the disinfestation of verminous
rooms and articles and a total of 1,236 rooms and 440 articles were treated.
In addition approximately 119 van loads of verminous and other articles were
destroyed and 1,419 library books were disinfected.
Certain foreign countries prohibit the importation of second-hand clothing
unless a 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 Business
The dressing of fur skins is carried on at 5 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.

GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1967
This Act received the Royal assent in July and several of its provisions
affect the Health Department.
Section 21 contains provisions for the Registration of Hairdressers
and Barbers from a date to be fixed by each London Borough Council by resolution.
At the end of the year By-laws had been submitted to the Ministry
of Housing and Local Government for confirmation with a view to registration in
this Borough being introduced early in 1968.