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INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST
(RESTRICTIONS) ACT, 1920 & 1923. SECTION 2 (2).
This sub-section provides that "at any time or times not
being less than three months after the date of any increased rent
permitted by the Act, the tenant is entitled to apply to the County
Court for an order suspending the increases if he considers that the
premises are not in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation,
or otherwise not in a reasonable state of repair. He will be required
to satisfy the County Court by a report of the Sanitary Authority,
or otherwise that his application is well founded, and for this purpose
is entitled to apply to the Sanitary Authority for a
certificate."
Thirty-six applications were made to your Authority during
the year, and in every instance a certificate was granted.
HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS,
OR DIVIDED INTO SEPARATE TENEMENTS.
Much consideration was given to the draft of the new Bye-laws
of the London County Council relating to the above-mentioned
premises.
During 1926, every effort will be made to add to such houses
already on our Register, and to see if the latter which are registerable
under the new Bye-laws, fully comply with them.
SCAVENGING.
The streets and yards are well scavenged.
While the regular removal of household refuse is performed in a
satisfactory manner, the same cannot be said with regard to the
mode of conveyance of the refuse through the streets. I am
informed that all the carts are provided with tarpaulins and that
the men are frequently cautioned against any failure to keep the
refuse covered as much as possible during the filling of the cart, and
completely so after the cart is filled and is on its way to the
destructor or rail; yet as one moves about the Borough it is the