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Circular 171/46, dated 6th September, 1946, restricted
the issue of building licences to the following categories
of work :
(a) The repair of a sanitary breakdown in a building
to safeguard the health of occupants.
(b) The repair of a building to avoid the imminent
collapse of a defective part of the structure. This may
include painting for protective purposes where there
would otherwise be a danger of disintegration and
minimum repairs to maintain weather-tightness.
(c) The essential repair of gas, electrical and water
services, drains and sewers, where the whole or part of
the installation is either out of use or in a dangerous
condition.
(d) The replacement of defective stoves, fires, boilers,
water heaters, other essential equipment, in order to
make the premises fit for occupation.
(e) Urgent works required by a Statutory Notice.
From the 28th October a quota system has been in
operation which has limited the total value of licences and
certificates of essential repair issued by the Council—
exclusive of expenditure on works providing additional
units of family accommodation—to a weekly average of
£4,720. This represents a reduction of from 30 to 40 per
cent. of the value for which licences were issued before
that date.
LANDLORD AND TENANT (WAR
DAMAGE) (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1941.
Applications for certificates of fitness for housing purposes
are dealt with by the Senior Sanitary Inspector.
No application was received during the year.
EXHUMATION AND RE-INTERMENT OF
BODIES.
During the year thirty-five Licences were granted by the
Secretary of State for the exhumation and removal of
bodies from graves in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery,
Harrow Road.