the Borough of Wood Green [ 1945] 2 All ER 162 (KB), the facts were these :The local authority in whose area a house was situated, served a notice upon its landlord to carry out certain specified repairs to various parts of the building. At the date of the notice the house was let to two separate tenants, one of whom occupied the ground floor and the other the upper floor. The house was not structurally divided, both tenants using the same entrance door, hall and internal corridor. The local authority had, however, rated the two parts of the house as separate dwellings. The landlord failed to carry out the work required by that notice and the local authority carried out the work and called upon the landlord to pay the cost of such work under the Housing Act, 1936. The landlord pleaded that the notice and the demand which followed it were not valid since separate notices and separate demands in respect of each tenement was required and that the landlord was entitled to know the cost of effecting the repairs for each of the tenements. It was held in that case that for the purpose of the Housing Act, 1936, the fact that the house consisted of two separate dwellings, did not entitle the landlord to separate notices in respect of each dwelling and that as the Act was concerned with
