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tious disease who would, oil leaving the hospital, be without
proper lodging; and
(c) The provision of temporary shelter and attendance for
members of families who have been compelled to leave
their dwellings for the purpose of the dwellings being
disinfected by the Local Authority.
The Act also gives further and extended powers in
relation to other similar matters.
The Board gave notice of the Act in the District by
public announcement, and steps have been taken for giving
effect to the same.
The Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1890.
This Act also came into operation during the year, and
relates more particularly, so far as this Board are concerned,
to the exemption of certain houses from Inhabited House
Duty. Section 26, clause 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 a week, and occupied only by persons paying such
rents, is to be discharged by the Commissioners acting in the
execution of the Acts relating to the inhabited house duties,
provided that a certificate is 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 certificate is to be obtained from the Medical
Officer of Health for the District in which the house is
situate, or from some other Medical Practitioner appointed as
in the Act mentioned.
The Act makes it the duty of the Medical Officer of
Health of a district, on request by the person who would be
liable to pay the house duty on any house in the District, if
the duty were not discharged by the Commissioners, to
examine the house for the purpose of ascertaining whether
a certificate can properly be given; and if the house is