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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 three pence; and
(c) The rate of inhabited house duty, in respect of
any dwelling in the house of an annual rate exceeding
forty pounds, but not exceeding sixty pounds, shall be
reduced to sixpence.
The only applications made under this Act during the year
were by the London County Council with respect to Carrington
House in Brookmill Road, Drake Buildings Nos. I to 40, and
Raleigh Buildings Nos. 1 to 50 in Blake Street; the required
certificates were granted.
HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS.
The bylaws relating to houses let in lodgings, or occupied
by members of more than one family, made by the Council
pursuant to Sec. 94 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
viz. —
(a) For fixing the number of persons who may occupy a
house or part of a house which is let in lodgings or
occupied by members of more than one family, and for the
separation of the sexes in a house so let or occupied;
(b) for the registration of houses so let or occupied;
(c) for the inspection of such houses;
(d) for enforcing drainage for such houses, and for promoting
cleanliness and ventilation in such houses;
(e) for the cleansing and lime-washing at stated times of the
premises ;
(f) for the taking of precautions in case of infectious disease,
received the sanction of the Local Government Board.