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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Shoreditch 1960
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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44.
HOUSING (contd.)
The following graph showing information concerning applications
made since the Act was introduced is of interest.
Housing Repairs and Rents Act 1954:
The Rent Act 1957 repealed Sections 23 to 32 of the Housing Repairs
and Rents Act 1954 which dealt with repairs increase in respect of controlled
dwellings. Para. 3(l) of the seventh schedule of the 1957 Rent Act
authorised that any certificate of defects issued by a local authority made
under the 1954 Act, being a certificate in force immediately before the
commencement of the Rent Act 1957, shall, to the extent that it specifies any
defects as regards the state of repair of any dwellings, have effect after
the commencement of the Act of 1957.