Report of the Tenement House Committee as Authorized by Chapter 479 of the Laws of 1894: Transmitted to the Legislature January 17, 1895J. B. Lyon, state printer, 1895 - 649 pages |
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... Tenement House Committee. At a meeting held on the 5th of June the following permanent committees were constituted : 1. Superintendence of general examination and statistics . 2. Construction as to sanitary condition and safety from fire ...
... Tenement House Committee. At a meeting held on the 5th of June the following permanent committees were constituted : 1. Superintendence of general examination and statistics . 2. Construction as to sanitary condition and safety from fire ...
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... Tenement House Committee. with a view to improving the conditions of tenement - house life in the city of New York . Not only were the worst houses of the city examined , and reports made upon them , but a special inquiry was also made ...
... Tenement House Committee. with a view to improving the conditions of tenement - house life in the city of New York . Not only were the worst houses of the city examined , and reports made upon them , but a special inquiry was also made ...
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... Tenement House Committee. The entire population of the tenements in 1893 , according to the board of health census , was 1,332,773 persons , living in 39,138 houses , out of an entire estimated population of 1,891,306 . Laws touching upon ...
... Tenement House Committee. The entire population of the tenements in 1893 , according to the board of health census , was 1,332,773 persons , living in 39,138 houses , out of an entire estimated population of 1,891,306 . Laws touching upon ...
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... Tenement House Committee. frequently amounting to 100 people , and sometimes increased by boarders and lodgers to 150 or more . The only thing that bears the slightest similarity to this in Europe is to be found ... TENEMENT HOUSES BEFORE 14.
... Tenement House Committee. frequently amounting to 100 people , and sometimes increased by boarders and lodgers to 150 or more . The only thing that bears the slightest similarity to this in Europe is to be found ... TENEMENT HOUSES BEFORE 14.
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... buildings is serious and quite as menacing to health as the overcrowding of inhabitants in the tenement - houses themselves . To determine this fact the tenement - house com- mittee has had a report prepared , under the direction of one ...
... buildings is serious and quite as menacing to health as the overcrowding of inhabitants in the tenement - houses themselves . To determine this fact the tenement - house com- mittee has had a report prepared , under the direction of one ...
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Page 11 - 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 7 - ... that over or across any such area there may be steps necessary for access to any building above the vault, cellar or room to which such area adjoins, if the same be so placed as not to be over, across or opposite to any such external window.
Page 9 - ... 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...
Page 64 - That the rental of the building was enhanced by reason of the same being used for illegal purposes or being so overcrowded as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the inmates ; or 2.
Page 7 - Provided, however, that in case of an inner or back vault, cellar, or room let or occupied along with a front vault, cellar, or room, as part of the same letting or occupation, it shall be a sufficient compliance with the provisions...
Page 5 - ... provided, however, that the exercise of such manual labor in a private house or private room by the family dwelling therein, or by any of them, or in case a majority of the persons therein employed are members of such family, shall not of itself constitute such house or room a workshop within this definition.
Page 39 - Each of such inspectors shall, . twice in each week, make a written report to said Board, stating what duties he has performed and where he has performed them, and also such facts as have come to his knowledge, connected with the purposes of this act, as are by him deemed worthy the attention of said Board, or as its regulations may require of him; and such, and the other reports herein elsewhere mentioned, shall be preserved among the records of said Board.