A Sanitary Survey of Rochester, N. Y.Women's Educational and Industrial Union, 1911 - 119 pages |
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A Sanitary Survey of Rochester, N. Y (Classic Reprint) Caroline Bartlett Crane No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 78 - The owner or keeper of any lodginghouse, and the owner or lessee of any tenement-house or part thereof, shall thoroughly cleanse all the rooms, passages, stairs, floors, windows, doors, walls, ceilings, privies, cesspools...
Page 70 - Overcrowding. If any room in a dwelling is overcrowded the health officer may order the number of persons sleeping or living in said room to be so reduced that there shall be not less than five hundred cubic feet of air to each adult and three hundred cubic feet of air to each child under twelve years of age occupying such room.
Page 71 - In every multiple-dwelling where the public halls and stairs are not in the opinion of the health officer sufficiently lighted, the owner of such house shall keep a proper light burning in the hallway near the stairs upon such floors as may be necessary from sunrise to sunset. In...
Page 74 - No separate tenement house shall hereafter be erected upon the rear of a lot fifty feet or less In width where there is a tenement house on the front of the said lot, nor upon the front of any such lot upon the rear of which there is such a tenement house.
Page 72 - ... apartments above the entrance story, in lieu of an additional stairway, the stairs, stair halls and entrance halls throughout the entire building may each be at least onehalf wider than is specified in sections fourteen and twenty of this act.
Page 87 - ... a city of tenements. Keep it a city of homes. Don't imagine there is no necessity for action because conditions in your city are not as bad as they are elsewhere. Don't build a model tenement until you have secured a model housing law. Don't attempt to legislate first and investigate afterwards. Don't permit any new houses to be built that do not have adequate light and ventilation and proper sanitation. Don't legislate merely for the present. Don't permit the growth of new slums. Prevention...
Page 76 - ... is infected with contagious disease or that it is unfit for human habitation, or dangerous to life or health by reason of want of repair, or of defects in the drainage, plumbing...
Page 116 - State on the local boards of health to make and publish general orders and regulations for the preservation of life and health and the execution of the Public Health Law, must not be exercised by the commissioner, but is vested in the common council, to be exercised by ordinances adopted and with the fine, imprisonment and penalties as herein provided. The power to make special or individual orders and regulations for the suppression of nuisances and concerning other matters detrimental to public...
Page 81 - Such fire-escapes shall open directly from at least one room or private hall in each apartment at each story above the ground floor, other than a bathroom or water-closet compartment, and...
Page 116 - The power now or hereafter conferred by the laws of this state on the local boards of health to make and publish general orders and regulations for the preservation of life and health and the execution of the public health law, must not be exercised by the commissioner, but is vested in the common council, to be exercised by ordinances adopted and with the fine, imprisonment and penalties as herein provided.