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Dog Owners are asked to co-operate in keeping the pavement clean
by training their dogs to use the gutter or roadway.
All dogs are trained not to foul their Owners' living rooms. They
can easily be trained not to foul the footways.
FRANK E. SCRASE,
F.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.),
D.P.H. (Lond.),
Medical Officer of Health.
Public Health Department,
Town Rail, Haverstock Hill,
Hampstead, N.W. 3.
Later in the year a small leaflet, on which was printed both the bylaw
and the advisory notice, was sent out with the Borough Council's
Electric Lighting Accounts, and in this way considerable publicity was
given to the matter.
Proposed New Public Health Station.
It is a matter for regret that this pressing need has not yet been
supplied. In 1924 the Public Health Committee decided that it was
desirable for the Disinfecting and Cleansing Stations and Public Mortuary
to be permanently established in a central position in the Borough,
together with the addition of a Coroner's Court; and on 27th November
of that year it was agreed by the Council, on the recommendation of a
Special Committee which had been appointed to consider and report on
the best way to utilise the vacant land at the Electricity Yard,
"That a portion of land on the north-east side of the electricity
yard, in area about 1,200 square yards, and shown in brown
colour on the plan submitted, be allocated to the requirements
of the Public Health Department, viz.:—Coroner's Court,
Mortuary, Disinfecting Station and Cleansing Station."
I assure the Council that the matter of the Public Health Station is
one of urgency: it is a necessity if we are to maintain the health of the
Borough at the high position to which it has been raised. No one item
of our structural equipment is satisfactory. It is very undesirable from
many points of view that the Public Mortuary should be a lock-up
Mortuary: our present building, although it is sound, is primitive, and
its post-mortem arrangements are not up to the standard of modern
requirements or those of other Metropolitan Boroughs. The temporary
nature of our disinfecting shed; the absence of any facility for washing
infected and fouled articles which have to be returned to citizens in the