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Houses infested with vermin. Number of premises cleansed.
Paddington 137 premises.
Kensington 270 „
Hammersmith
Fulham 77 rooms.
Chelsea 236 „
Westminster, City of 132 premises.
St. Marylebone 53 ,,
Hampstead 9 rooms.
St. Pancras 217 „
Islington 115 premises.
Stoke Newington
Hackney 121 „
Holborn 22 ,,
Finsbury
London, City of 4 premises.
Shoreditch 127 premises.
Bethnal Green 295 rooms.
Stepney 929 ,,
Poplar 213 „
Southwark 1,473 ,,
Bermondsey
Lambeth 51 persons and houses.
Battersea 3 premises.
Wandsworth 84 „
Camberwell 13 ,,
Deptford 7 ,,
Greenwich 5 „
Lewisham 6 ,,
Woolwich 183 rooms.
In connection with the cleansing of the premises, numerous articles were cleansed under the
powers given by section 19 of the Act.
Revenue Act, 1903.
Under section 11 of the Revenue Act, 1903, on the certificate of the medical officer of health
that the house is so constructed as to afford suitable accommodation for each of the families or
persons inhabiting it, with due provision for their sanitary requirements, there is exemption from or
reduction of inhabited house duty, as follows:—
(1) Where a house, so far as it is used as a dwelling house, is used for the sole purpose
of providing separate dwellings—
(a) The value of any dwelling in the house which is of an annual value below twenty
pounds shall be excluded from the annual value of the house for the purposes of inhabited
house duty; and
(b) The rate of inhabited house duty, in respect of any dwelling in the house of an
annual value of twenty pounds, but not exceeding forty pounds, shall be reduced to threepence;
and
(c) The rate of inhabited house duty, in respect of any dwelling in the house of
an annual value exceeding forty pounds, but not exceeding sixty pounds, shall be reduced
to sixpence.
For the purposes of these provisions medical officers of health were called upon to certify
numerous houses during the year, and in some instances the application was granted, in others it was
refused, while in others, again, it was only granted after alterations had been made to meet the conditions
necessary, before certification. The Act appears to be instrumental in ensuring a higher standard
of dwelling accommodation than before.

21322 * Houses. † Includes applications refused. k 2