Annual Report of the Board of State Charities of Massachusetts, Volume 5Wright & Potter, 1869 |
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AGENT'S REPORT Aggregates amount Asylum average number Barnstable board of health Boston boys Bridgewater cent CHAP charity child Clerk Commonwealth condition county prisons crime Current Expenses deaf mutes Department discharged disease duties Edgartown establishment F. B. Sanborn Females FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT Foundling Hospital girls Home House of Cor House of Correction hundred improvements increase inmates insane Institution instruction Jail and House labor large number legislation Legislature less lodging-house Lunatic Hospitals Males Massachusetts Matron ment Monson months mortality motherless infants nearly Northampton nurses October officers orphans Overseer paid patients paupers persons placed poor Primary School private families Rainsford Island receipts received Reform Reformatories SALARY School Ships SECRETARY'S REPORT SECT September 30 settlement Settlement Law social South Boston statistics Superintendent TABLE Taunton Taunton Hospital Tewksbury Almshouse tion Total number vicious Visiting Agent Westborough wet nurse whole number Worcester Hospital Workhouse York
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Page 150 - Commissioners, and who shall hold their offices from the date of their respective appointment for the terms of one, two and three years, respectively, from the first day of April next.
Page 24 - ... that in any area adjoining a vault, cellar, or underground room, there may be steps necessary for access to such vault, cellar, or room if the same be so placed as not to be over, across, or opposite to...
Page 25 - ... of the house or part of the house of which he is the owner or lessee, to the satisfaction of the Board of Health...
Page 26 - But when thorough ventilation of such open spaces can be otherwise secured, said distances may be lessened or modified, in special cases, by a permit from the board of health or the superintendent.
Page 28 - cellar" shall be taken to mean and include every basement or lower story of any building or house of which one-half or more of the height from the floor to the ceiling is below the level of the street adjoining. The phrase
Page 25 - Avail or door in the entry, or some public accessible place, the name and address of the owner or owners, and of the agent or agents, or any one having charge of the renting and collecting of the rents for the same...
Page 24 - ... said external window and so as to allow between every part of such steps and the external wall of such vault, cellar or room, a clear space of six inches at least, and if the rise of said steps is open; and provided, further, that...
Page 27 - A tenement-house within the meaning of this title shall be taken to mean and include any house or building, or portion thereof, which is rented, leased, let or hired out, to be occupied, or is occupied as the home or residence of three families or more living independently of each other, and doing their cooking upon the premises, or by more than two families upon any floor, so living and cooking, but having a common right in the halls, stairways, yards, water-closets or privies, or some of them.
Page 28 - SECT. 18. The board of health shall have authority to make other regulations as to cellars and as to ventilation, consistent with the foregoing, where it shall be satisfied that such regulations will secure equally well the health of the occupants. All complaints under this act shall be made only by authority of the board of health, and the municipal court of the city of Boston shall have jurisdiction concurrent with the superior court of all offences against the provisions of this act. [Approved...
Page 24 - ... below the level of the floor of such vault, cellar, or room ; nor unless there is a clear space of not less than one foot below the level of the floor, except where the same is cemented ; nor unless there be appurtenant to such vault, cellar, or room the use of a water-closet or privy, kept and provided as in this act required ; nor unless the same have an external...