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Report of the Sanitary Committee, directed legal proceedings to
enforce the notices to be instituted under the Metropolis Local
Management Act. This was done, and compliance with the
orders compelled.
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
By the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1890, section 26,
paragraph 2, it is provided:—
"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, 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, or other medical practitioner appointed
as hereinafter provided, shall bo produced to them to the effect
that the house is so constructed as to afford suitable accommodation
fur 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 on request by the person who would
he liable to pay the house duty on any house in the district, if tho
duty were not discharged as aforesaid, shall examine the house
for the purpose of ascertaining whether such a certificate can
properly be given, and if the house be constructed as to afford
such accommodation, and due provision be made as aforesaid,
shall certify the same accordingly."
In November, the Sanitary Committeo presented a report as
follows:—
Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1890,
Section 26, Paragraph 2; and
Salary of Medical Officer.
The Sanitary Committee are of opinion that the Act will be
most useful in improving the sanitary condition of many of the
dwellings of the poorer inhabitants of this Parish. They consider