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Such certificates were originally intended as a stimulus to property
owners to improve the condition of tenement houses, but in some of the
above the accommodation for which application was made was intended
for servants and caretakers in blocks of high.class mansions.
By the Housing and Town Planning Act a further extension has
been made by exempting from Inhabited House Duty any house
occupied for the sole purpose of letting lodgings to persons of the
working class at a charge of not exceeding 6d. a night for each person,
if certified by the Medical Officer of Health to be solely constructed and
used to afford suitable accommodation for the lodgers and due provision
made for their sanitary requirements. Three applications were made
for certificates under this Act. In one case, 16, Strutton Ground, it
was granted, in one refused, and in the case of the third, which was for
three houses separately licensed by the County Council as common
lodging.houses but assessed as one house, a certificate was offered for
one of the three but was declined.