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During the year two certificates were issued in respect of bodies being transported to Italy and
Iraq.
Cremation.
The Medical Officer of Health is Medical Referee for the Council's Crematorium which is situated
in the St. Marylebone Cemetery at East Finchley. During the year, 1,845 certificates authorising
cremation were issued. Since December, 1937, when the Crematorium was opened, 17,199 cremations
have taken place.
Dog Nuisance.
The Council's bye-law dealing with this nuisance provides that:—
"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."
Although it has been shown that dogs can carry and excrete germs capable of producing illness
in man, cases of human disease can seldom be positively related to infection from this source.
However, there are many obvious objections to fouling of the footway by dog excreta and not least
amongst them is the attraction to flies and blowflies with the consequent hazards to health.
During the year, contraventions reported by the Streets Nuisance Inspector and the Police resulted
in eleven summonses. In ten of these, convictions were secured and penalties imposed and in the other,
a Police case, the summons was not served.
Street Photographers.
A local bye-law, made by the Council under section 146 of the London Government Act, 1924,
came into operation on the 1st August, 1952, prohibiting the importuning by a street photographer
of any person, in certain prescribed streets or public places, for the purpose of taking or selling any
photograph. An offender against the bye-law is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding
£5. As the administration and enforcement of most other "good rule and government" bye-laws
have been referred to the Public Health Committee, a similar course was followed in regard to this
bye-law, more particularly as the officers of the Department, including the Streets Nuisance Inspector,
are continually about the streets.
During 1958 the Council took out nine summonses and in each case obtained convictions. Fines
and costs amounting to £33 8s. Od. were imposed.