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to secure the person's compulsory removal to an Institution on
the order of a Stipendiary Magistrate. In the remaining three
cases, two removed from the district, and no action was called
for in respect of the remaining case.

The number of inspections made of these premises during the
year was 35.
At the end of the year the Public Health Committee decided
to recommend the Council to sanction the establishment anew of
the business of a soap boiler in the Peckham district of Camberwell.
Sanitary Conveniences attached to Licensed Premises.
During 1934 the Sanitary Inspectors made 1,521 inspections of
the public house urinals in the Borough.
In 130 instances these conveniences open on to the public footway.
This undesirable condition of affairs easily permits of nuisances
and other abuses taking place. Whenever plans are submitted for a
reconstruction of this type of urinal, care should be taken to prevent
any continuation of this practice. It is satisfactory to record that
during the period under review the Public Health Committee of this
Council refused the applications of owners who made requests that
such urinals be allowed to continue to open on the public footway.
Fouling of Footways by Dogs.
This by-law which was made by the Council and approved by
the Home Office in 1926, does not appear to have resulted in any
appreciable diminution of this objectionable form of nuisance. The
duty of enforcing the provisions of this by-law was delegated by the
Council to the Sanitary Inspectors and the Street Keeper. It is
apparently not understood however, that it is permissible for
anyone to institute proceedings against offenders of this by-law.
The By-law provides: —
No person being in charge of a dog in any street or public place and having
the dog on a lead shall allow or permit such dog to deposit its
excrement upon the public footway.
Any person offending against this By-law shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding 40s.