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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health—1692.
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890
Summary, of Representation under Part II., made by the Medical
Officer of Health during the Year, 1892.
Premises.
Date of Official
Representation.
Result.
1 to 13 Spiller's Court,
Webber Row.
March 15th.
Closed with costs; mostly demolihed.
Block I.—Nos. 1 to 28,
Artizans' Buildings,
Gun Street, Friar
Street.
July 5th.
After four adjournments, closing
orders granted, which lay ("in the
interest of the unfortunate tenant")
in the Magistrate's office, pending
the carrying out of the following
requirements which were accomplished:-
Ventilating pipes (4) and
drains remedied; duct shoots and
doors repaired; water-cisterns on
roofs cleansed, covered, and removed
from close proximity to the
soil ventilating pipes; improved
water-supply provided; general
repairs and cleansing done; owner
fined £10 and £1 1s. costs in each
case, or, in default of distress, one
month's imprisonment for each
offence.
Block ii.—Nos. 1 to 28,
Artizans' Buildings,
Gun Street, Friar
Street.
July 5th.
1, 2, 3, and 4, John's
Place, Webber Row.
July 5th.
Closed, with costs; since demolished.
1, 2, 3, and 4, Emmett's
Buildings.
December.
Closed, with costs.
44, Webber Row.
December.
Closed, with costs.
1 to 11, Kell Street,
Borough Road.
December.
Closed, with costs.
Summary.
enements respecting which representations have been made 110
???habitants
epresentations made respecting the above 14
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts, 1890, S. 26 (2), and S. 1.
Tenement property, occupied by about 42-4 families, has been examined during
???e latter seven months of 1892, at the request of the respective owners, with
ie view of obtaining the certificate of the Medical Officer of Health, by which
???cemption from inhabited house duty can be claimed under the provisions of above
???ictions.
A large amount of time was required for the necessary examination of the
veilings before the certificates could be either given or refused.
The Act of 1890 states that the house before exemption from duty
aimed, must be "so constructed as to afford suitable accommodation
milies or persons inhabiting it, and that due provision is mat
???quirements;" and the Act of 1891, stipulates that the annual value of each
???eparate dwelling within the house "shall not amount to $20.
The standard of sanitary requirements was only reached to the case of one.
???use, containing five tenements, for which a certiticate given by me.