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INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST
(RESTRICTIONS) ACT, 1920. 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. "
Fifty-seven applications were made to your Authority during
the year, and in every instance a certificate was granted.
SCAVENGING.
The Scavenging of the Borough is satisfactorily provided for
and carried out by an efficient weekly collection of the house refuse,
which is brought in covered carts to the Destructor in Church
Walk. Trade refuse is collected and disposed of on terms agreed
upon. The streets and yards are well scavenged.
RATS AND MICE (DESTRUCTION) ACT, 1919.
In April, 1920, at the request of the Board of Agriculture
and Fisheries your two Sanitary Inspectors, Mr. D. W. Matthews
and Mr. A. P. Piggott, were appointed Officers under the above Act.
During 1921, 30 premises were freed from rats and 3 remained
under observation.
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORK-PLACES.
The usual inspections of these premises were made during the
year. The Workshops and Work-places now number 330, and
they are maintained in a faitly satisfactory condition.
There are at present 93 out-workers who work for places of
business situated within the Borough and 530 out-workers dwelling
in Stoke Newington working for businesses outside of the
Borough.