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relation to the number of water-closets in proportion to the number of
inmates in houses let in lodgings. In view of these decisions, new by-laws
had to be submitted by both County and City Councils to the Local
Government Board, embodying new clauses, whereby the owner or landlord
of any lodging-house shall not be deemed to have offended against either
of these by-laws until notice has been served on him by the Sanitary
Authority, and he shall have failed to comply with such notice. Thus
the chief advantage which the by-laws possessed of being able to deal
with infringements of them, has been taken away.
There were 2,004 houses registered, but 426 houses have been
demolished; 81 have been added during 1904, leaving 1,659 still on the
register. During the year 987 visits were paid, 397 by district
inspectors in the ordinary course of their work, and 590 by the women
inspectors during the six months since they were appointed. Works
carried out in such houses are included in the above list (p. 50).
Revenue Act.
Section 11 of this Act provides that:—
(1) Where a house, so far as it is used as a dwelling-house, is
used for the sole purpose of providing separate dwellings—
(a) The value of any dwelling in the house which is of an annual
value below twenty pounds shall be 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 value exceeding forty pounds but not
exceeding sixty pounds shall be reduced to sixpence.
(2) The provisions of this section, as respects dwellings of an annual
value not exceeding forty pounds, shall not take effect with regard to
any such dwelling unless such a certificate as to accommodation and
sanitary condition is produced to the General Commissioners as defined
by Section 4 of the Taxes Management Act, 1880, as is mentioned in
Subsection 2 of Section 26 of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act,
1890, and the provisions of that subsection as to the certificate shall
apply for the purpose.
Originally it was the intention of Parliament to encourage the
erection of artizans' dwellings, but this new Act brings in houses let
in tenements or flats. The Medical Officer is entitled to have information
supplied to him that houses he may be asked to examine for the