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CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE ACT, 1890.
During the year 1904 eleven applications were made to me by owners
of tenement property for certificates that their tenements are so constructed
"as to afford suitable accommodation for each of the families
or persons dwelling therein, and that due provision is made for their
sanitary requirements" in order to obtain a remission from the Inhabited
House Duty. The eleven applications included 181 tenements.
These I inspected and granted the required certificates after the execution
of any necessary alterations.
CANAL BOATS ACTS, 1877—1894.
The canal boats inspector of the borough who by special arrangement
with the Local Government Board devotes one day each week
to the visit and inspection of canal boats reports that during 1904 he
made 80 visits to the waterways of the district and inspected 71 boats.
He found on these boats 115 adults and three children. Of the
total number of boats, in only three were there any infringements of the
Acts or Regulations. The following are the details of such infringements:—
Boats not marked
Want of sufficient ventilation
Dilapidations
Notices were served for the remedy of these defects.
HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACTS.
In January, 1904, I made the following representations to the Public
Health Committee respecting Nos. 12 16, and 17, Priory-place, Wellstreet:—