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By Section 4 of the "Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1801," this enactment is
amended by the substitution of the words "Where the annual value of each dwelling
shall not amount to £20," for the words "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."
Section 4 of the Act of 1891 further extends this concession, and provides that in
the case of any house originally built, or adapted by additions or alterations, and used,
so far as the same is used as a dwelling-house, for the sole purpose of providing
separate dwellings at an annual value not exceeding £40 for each dwelling, the
Commissioners acting in the execution of the Acts, relating to Inhabited House Duties
shall, upon production of such a certificate as is mentioned in Sub-section (2) of
Section 26 of the Act 1890, grant relief by confining the assessment to the annual value
of the house, exclusive of every dwelling therein of an annual value below £20 (if any),
and by reducing the rate of duty to three pence.
In pursuance of these Acts, and upon request of the owners, I have inspected, since
my appointment, 114 dwellings, but in no case were the conditions such as to warrant
the giving of a certificate, and indeed the examination in several cases led to notices
being served upon the owners to rectify grave sanitary defects.
STAFF OF THE DEPARTMENT.
A report on the requirements of the Parish, to enable proper cognizance to be taken
of sanitary defects, was submitted by me in December to the General Purposes
Committee, and has been circulated in printed form among the Members of the Vestry,
together with a memorandum by the Vestry Clerk, to whom, with your Medical Officer,
the matter was remitted. The Committee have not yet had time to give the amount of
attention they desire to the discussion of the report.
LONDON WATER SUPPLY.
In consequence of communications from the Vestry of St. Mary, Battersea, and the
Board of Works for St. Saviour's, Southwark, enclosing statements of their public
analysts in reference to the water supplied by several of the London water companies, I
reported to you on the conditions under which London is supplied with water, and
suggosted that the companies should be prohibited drawing water from polluted sources,
in the same way as any private individual would be if he drew water from a
polluted well.
THE "SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1875."
Mr. Stiles, the Inspector appointed under these Acts, reports to me the following
information as to the number of Samples procured, together with the result of Analyses
during the year 1891:—