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the number of cleansings required during one month. The upper part of
the building now used by the Distress Committee was fitted up as a
Cleansing Station, but it was not brought into use until the early part
of 1912.
Houses Let in Lodgings.
The number of houses registered as houses let in lodgings at the
end of 1911 was 425, 61 houses being added to the register in 1911.
The registered houses are situated chiefly in the following streets : —
Bolton Road King's College Mews East.
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Broomsleigh Street. Kingsford Street.
Canfield Place. Kingsgate Road.
Dunboyne Street. Linstead Street.
Fairfax Mews. Lower Cross Road.
Fleet Road. Lowfield Road.
Iverson Road. Nether wood Street
Kelson Street. Palmerston Roal.
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts.
These Acts provide that the owners of premises that are let in
dwellings of a certain class may claim exemption or abatement from
inhabited house duty on producing a certificate from the Medical Officer
of Health that the dwellings afford proper sanitary accommodation for
the occupants. During the year applications for certificates under these
Acts were received in respect of 12 dwellings, this number being 39 less
than the number for which applications were made in 1910. No
dwellings were certified during the year, the owners deciding to
forego the exemption rather than carry out the works necessary to
obtain the certificate.
Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act.
This Act imposes upon Sanitary Authorities certain duties of great
importance. One of the most important of these is the duty laid upon
every Sanitary Authority by Section 17 (1) of the Act "to cause to be
made from time to time inspection of their district with a view to
ascertain whether any dwelling-house therein is in a state so dangerous
or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation, and for that
purpose it shall be the duty of the Local Authority, and of every Officer
of the Local Authority, to comply with such regulations and to keep
such records as may be prescribed by the Local Government Board."