DOGS IN LONDON [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In
your recent annotation on the fouling of .the footway by dogs there is a slight confusion in the wording which does not make clear the actual positions in the City of Westminster and the Royal. Borough of Kensington respectively. By- laws to control this nuisance were first framed and . put in
force by Kensington. . .
This was in 1921, and those by-laws have been in force ever since ; about forty-six convictions have been obtained during that period for breaches of the by-laws. Since, this pioneer effort by Kensington about twenty other Boroughs in various parts of England have adopted similar by-laws.
I gather from your remarks that Westminster has just done the same, which will very much annoy a certain lady whom the Kensington Council prosecuted some time ago ; she resided near the boundary between the two authorities, and announced her intention, after she was convicted and fmed. of taking her dog over the boundary into Westminster in, the
Mayor of Kensington.
Mayor's Parlour, Town Hall, Kensington, W. 8.__ _ _
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