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The total cost to the Council for anti-toxin supplied during the year
was nil.
PUBLIC HEALTH LEGISLATION IN FORCE IN THE
BOROUGH.
The powers under which the Council work are those contained in the
Public General Acts, the London County Council (General Powers)
Acts, and the Bye-laws under the Public Health Acts.
In addition the Council on the 28th April, 1937, made the following
bye-law for the good rule and government of Chelsea :—
NUISANCES BY DQGS.
(1) No person being in charge of a dog shall allow the dog to foul the
footway of any street or public place by depositing its excrement thereon.
Provided that a person shall not be liable to be convicted of an offence
against this bye-law, if he satisfies the Court that the fouling of the
footway by the dog was not due to culpable neglect or default on his part.
(2) For the purposes of this bye-law the owner of the dog shall be
deemed to be in charge thereof, unless the Court is satisfied that at the
time when the dog fouled the footway it had been placed in or taken into
the charge of some other person.
(3) Any person offending against this bye-law shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding forty shillings.
(4) This bye-law shall cease to be in force on 1st June, 1939, unless
a bye-law re-enacting its provisions has come into operation before
that date.
(5) As from the date on which this bye-law comes into operation, the
bye-law made by the Council on 2nd February, 1927, under Section 23
of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, as to nuisances by dogs upon
the public footways shall be and is hereby repealed.
This bye-law has proved of considerable assistance in preventing serious
nuisance.
HOSPITAL SERVICES.
The Borough is singularly well provided with facilities for hospital
treatment, both general and special. In addition, several important
general and special hospitals are situated in the immediate neighbourhood.
Over 80 per cent. of the inhabitants suffering from serious illness or
disease seek and obtain in-patient hospital accommodation.
The following Hospitals and Institutions are located within the Borough.
None of these are controlled or supported wholly or in part by the Borough
Council.
Brompton Hospital for Consumption.
The Royal Cancer Hospital.
Chelsea Hospital for Women.
Cheyne Hospital for Children.
Royal Hospital for Pensioners.
St. George's Home for Tuberculosis.
St. Luke's Hospital and Institution.
St. Stephen's Hospital and Institution.
Victoria Hospital for Children.
The following table No.24 shows, in the form required by the Ministry
of Health, particulars of the hospitals, public and voluntary, within and
without the Borough, which are utilised by inhabitants of the Borough.