The problem
Dogs on children’s playgrounds represent a major health and injury hazard:
over 350,000 tons of excrement is deposited each year
over 100 people, mainly children, have eye diseases caught by swallowing the Toxocara egg each year. This is caused by the parasitic roundworm in dog faeces
There is evidence that dogs also carry e.coli and hepatitis in their faeces.
1600 children are taken to hospital casualty departments with dog bites