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for the sole purpose of letting lodgings to persons of the working classes, at a
charge of not exceeding sixpence per night for each person, shall be discharged
by the Commissioners acting in the execution of such Acts relating to the
inhabited house duties, upon the production of a certificate to the effect that
the house is solely constructed and used to afford suitable accommodation for
the lodgers, and that due provision is made for their sanitary requirements.
(2) The provisions of Sub-section (2) of Section 26 of the Customs and
Inland Revenue Act, 1890 (53 and 54 Vict., c. 8), in relation to the certificate
mentioned therein, shall, so far as applicable, apply to the certificate to be
produced under this section.
The Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1890 (53 Vict., ch. 8), Section
(26) 2, provides that the assessment to inhabited house duty of any house
originally built or adapted by additions or alterations and used for the sole
purpose of providing separate dwellings for persons at rents not exceeding for
each dwelling the rate of seven shillings and sixpence per week (now an
annual value of forty pounds), and occupied only by persons paying such
rents, shall be discharged by the said Commissioners, provided that a certificate
of the medical officer of health for the district in which the house is situate
shall be produced to them to the effect that the house is so constructed as to
afford suitable accommodation for each of the families or persons inhabiting
it, and that due provision is made for their sanitary requirements. The
medical officer of health of a district, oil in quest, by the person who would be
liable to pay the house duty on any house in the district if the duty were not
discharged as aforesaid, shall examine the house for the purpose of ascertaining
whether such a certificate can be properly given, and if the house be
constructed so as to afford such accommodation and due provision be made as
aforesaid, shall certify the same accordingly.
(See also Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1904,
Part IV.—Sanitation, § 3—Dwellings, pages 64 to 66, Revenue Act, 1903.)
§ 3.—ORDERS.
HOUSING (INSPECTION OF DISTRICT) REGULATIONS, 1910.
The Order of the Local Government Board, dated 2nd September, 1910,
making1 Regulations as to the inspection of a district ander the Housing and
Town Planning Act, 1909, is quoted as regards its principal provisions in
Part IV. Sanitation, under § 3 Dwellings earlier in this Report.
RULES AS TO PROCEDURE ON APPEAL, 1910.
The Order of the Local Government Board, dated 11th January, 1910r
making rules determining the procedure to be adopted in any appeal is alsoquoted
as to its principal provisions in the part and section of this Report
mentioned above.
THE DIPHTHERIA ANTITOXIN (LONDON) ORDER, 1910.
To the Sanitary Authority for the execution of Public Health (London)
Act, 1891 :—
To the Medical Officers of Health of the Authorities aforesaid;—
And to all others whom it may concern.
Whereas under Section 77 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, any
Sanitary Authority for the execution of that Act may, with the sanction of