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Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Acts, 1920 and
1923.—There was only one application for a certificate under these Acts during
the year, but after consideration the Council were unable to grant the application.
They took the same course with regard to the case held over at the end of the
previous year.
Tents and Vans.—By-laws regulating the use of these were made by the
Council in 1903. All tents and vans (which are few in number) were inspected
regularly and steps taken to ensure that the By-laws were being observed. The total
number of inspections made was 83.
Houses Let in Lodgings.—No register is now kept of houses let in lodgings,
but as the records of this Department in respect of individual houses are kept on
cards, such houses are kept prominently before the district sanitary inspectors by
means of "signals" on the cards which serve as reminders to the inspectors that
they are dealing with houses that would formerly have been registered.
During the year 448 inspections of such houses were made, 25 offences were
discovered and 19 notices were served.
New Houses.—The following Table, No. 51, shows the number of certificates
of a proper and sufficient supply of water for new houses granted by the Public
Health Committee at each of their meetings. Of these, 190 were in respect of houses
built bv the Council.