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CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE ACTS,
1890 TO I903.
Applications for certificates to secure relief of taxation
under these Acts were made in respect of thirty
houses, comprising eighty-six tenements, fifty-eight
were granted and twenty-eight refused.
CLEANSING OF PERSONS ACTS, 1897.
Only six applications were made and all were
attended to at the Disinfecting Station, Digby Street
Depot.
BAKEHOUSES.
The number of Bakehouses on the register at the
end of the year was ninety-four, sixty-three of these
were above ground and thirty-one below pavement
level; 275 inspections were made and twenty-one
notices were served; all these were obeyed so that no
prosecution was necessary, but a Bakehouse at 56,
Collingwood Street, which has been in an unsatisfactory
condition for some years became so dilapidated
as to be unfit for use. I reported the matter to the
Public Health Committee and was authorized to take
proceedings against the occupier on the ground that
the premises were in such a state as to be unfit for use
as a Bakehouse. When the occupier became aware of
our intentions he closed the premises and there is no
immediate prospect that they will be reoccupied.
HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES
ACT 1890 TO 1903.
The Brady Street insanitary area remains in statu
quo; no steps have been taken by the London County
Council to deal with it. On June 7th a conference