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purpose of granting a certificate come under Subsections a and
that is to say, that the various tenements or flats are rated separately,
and that their respective annual value (for inhabited house duty) does
not exceed forty pounds.
Applications have been received by me in respect of 29 sets of
premises, including in them 603 separate tenements. These have been
inspected by me, with the result that the certificate was refused in
15 instances, granted in 507 instances (but in 45 of these the granting
of the certificate was deferred until various works were carried out).
In connection with 81 tenements, certain works which were required
had not been carried out at the end of the year, and the granting of the
certificate was therefore postponed. The premises in which the
tenements are situated for which application was made were Dryden
Chambers, Carlton Chambers, Albert Mansions, Alexander Buildings,
Castle Buildings, Flaxman House, Norfolk, Probyn and Jessel
Buildings, Park Mansions, Charing Cross Mansions, Sussex Mansions,
Burleigh Mansions, Newport House, Carey Mansions, Buckingham
Gate Gardens, Whitehall Court, St. James' Dwellings, Gerrard
Mansions, Broad Court Flats and Mansions, Tavistock House, Wilfred
House, 19 and 20, Bow Street, 16 and 26, St. Anne's Court, 14, Old
Compton Street, 7, Ingestre Place, and 41, Charing Cross Road.
D. Workshops.
Section 132 of the Factory and Workshops Act directs that "The
Medical Officer of Health of every District Council shall in his annual
report to them report specifically on the administration of this Act in
workshops and workplaces, and he shall send a copy of his annual
report, or so much of it as deals with this subject, to the Secretary of
State," and forms have been supplied giving a summary of what is
required. It is, however, a matter of difficulty to apportion work,
especially as workshops and dwellings are so intermingled.

There are undoubtedly many more workshops in the City; they are
gradually being discovered, but at the same time the occupation of