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enabling such dwellings to be disinfected by the Sanitary Authority.
The premises are situated in Watson Street, and were used
but once during the year.
MORTUARY AND CORONER'S COURT.
The site in Watson Street having , now been purchased, the
Public Health Committee trust that there will be no delay in
the erection of the building , and that the scheme will embrace
the opening out of Baildon Street, making a thoroughfare into
Douglas Street, and so improve one of the worst streets in the
Borough. The dead bodies received into the present
mortuary during the year numbered 95.
The Coroner held 98 inquests, with the result that 38 were
found to have died from natural causes, 56 from accidental
causes, and 4 from suicide.
REVENUE ACT, 1903.
In 189O Parliament passed the Customs and Inland Revenue
Act (53 Vict. Cap. 8), in which (Section 26, 2) they granted
exemption from inhabited house duty, for houses used solely
for providing separate dwellings at rents not exceeding seven
shillings and sixpence a week for each dwelling, provided that
a certificate is produced from the Medical Officer of Health
for the district in which the house is situated, to the effect 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. The Medical Officer
of Health must examine such premises on request for the
purpose of ascertaining whether such certificate can properly be
given. In 1891 Parliament extended the benefits of the Act,
and in 1903, the provisions were again extended and embodied
in a new Section (Revenue Act, 1903, Sect. 11), the previous
enactments being repealed except with regard to the mode of
obtaining the certificate. The exact words of the Section are: —