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(5) The measures taken by way of supervision or education of
tenants to prevent infestation or re-infestation after cleansing.
In the case of tenants of other than Council owned premises the
Sanitary Inspectors give every possible help and advice, and excrcise
such supervision as is desirable with the object of preventing infestation
or re-infestation after cleansing.
In the case of an infested tenant of Council housing property, the
Superintendent gives verbal advice, lends a hand-sprayer and gives
the solution referred to in answer to Question No. 2, to the tenant.
Cleansing and Disinfection of Verminous Persons and their
Belongings.
A reference to these matters will be found in Section 7.
Removal of aged, infirm, or physically incapacitated persons.
The powers conferred by Section 224 of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1936, were not employed during 1938.
Nuisance by Dogs.
The practice of exhibiting warning posters throughout the
Borough calling the attention of the general public to fines imposed for
breaches of the Byelaw relating to nuisance caused by dogs has been
continued during the year. Early in 1938 the General Purposes Committee
gave consideration to a resolution from the Public Health Committee
on the subject of a letter considered by the latter Committee
from the Home Office with reference to the fouling of footways by dogs
with which letter was enclosed a memorandum, forwarding a copy of
a new Bye-law in a form which the Home Office were prepared to
allow for an experimental period of not more than two years in the
first instance. The Bye-law on the subject hitherto in force provided
that an offence was only committed while the dog was on the lea-d.
In view of the fact that many complaints had been received as to
the condition of the fouling of the footways, the Council concurred in
the opinion that for an experimental period such new Bye-law should
be made, the terms of which are as follows:-
(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,