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Marylebone 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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FOULING OF FOOTWAYS BY DOGS.
Nuisance and danger to health are caused by the excreta of
dogs. In order to protect the public the Borough Council have made
the following Bye-law :—
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.
PENALTY :—Forty Shillings for each offence.
In the general interest YOU are asked to assist in securing
enforcement of the Bye-law.
PREMISES AND OCCUPATIONS CONTROLLED BY BY-LAWS
AND REGULATIONS.
Underground rooms and underground sleeping rooms, though controlled, the former under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and the latter under special regulations under the Housing Acts, are not registered.
| Number of premises | Number of inspections 1930 | Number of notices 1930 | Number of prosecutions, 1930 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On register at end of 1929 | Added in 1930 | Removed in 1930 | On register at end of 1930 | ||||
| Milk premises | 107 | 5 | — | ||||
| Slaughterhouses | — | — | — | — | |||
| Offensive trade premises | — | 2 | — | — | |||
| — | — | ||||||
| Butter and Margarine Manu | — | ||||||
| — | — | — | — | ||||
| — | — | — | |||||
| — | — | — | |||||
| — | — | — | |||||
| Houses let in lodgings | — | — | — | ||||
| — | — | — | — | — | |||
A.—BUSINESS PREMISES.
Milk Premises.—The number of premises upon which milk is sold is 113.
This is 6 more than in 1929, 11 having been added and 5 removed; in 1925 there
were 148 on the register.
Cow Sheds.—In the Survey Report of 1925, commenting upon the fact that
there still remained one cow shed in the Borough, at 42a, Clipstone Street, licensed
for 10 cows, opportunity was taken to discuss the reasons responsible for the
recognition by cowkeepers and others of the unsuitability of this part of the metropolis
for the purposes of their trade. It was noted that as recently as 1919 the
number of cows licensed to be kept was 105, though, in fact, only 16 were kept.
In 1925 the only licence in existence covered 10 cows. These were kept on
premises the lease of which eventually expired in 1929, when the last of the cow
sheds disappeared and cowkeeping in St. Marylebone ceased, presumably, for ever.
Slaughter Houses.—At the moment the only slaughter house in the Borough