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the occupants. During the year application for certificates under these
Acts were received in respect of 51 dwellings, this number being 45 less
than the number for which applications were made in 1909. The number
of dwellings certified was 17.
Upon receipt of an application for a certificate a detailed sanitary
survey is made of the premises, and should any of the dwellings fail to
reach the required standard of sanitation, a list of requirements is drawn
up and sent to the owner, and the certificate is only granted when these
requirements are fulfilled. In every case the drains are required to
stand the water test, and all gas stoves must be well ventilated into the
open air by means of a properly constructed hood and shaft.

Underground Rooms.
The Public Health (London) Act, 1891, contains special provisions
relating to underground rooms, an underground room being defined as
a room the floor of which is more than three feet below the surface of
the footway of the adjoining street, or of the ground adjoining or
nearest to the room. An underground room that is not occupied in
conjunction with a room on any other floor of the same house must
comply with certain conditions that are set out in detail in the Act;
must, for instance, be sufficiently protected against damp, properly
lighted and ventilated, and provided with a fireplace with a proper
chimney or flue, &c. An underground room that does not comply with
these requirements is illegally occupied. During 1910, as in previous
years, special attention was paid to the inspection of underground rooms,