Department for the Survey and Inspection of Buildings in the City of BostonRockwell & Churchill, city printers, 1871 - 36 pages |
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adjoining agent approved assistant-inspectors block stone board of health brickwork building limits CAMPHENE cellar or room chimneys City Council city of Boston COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS construction cornice dangerous structures drains eighteen hundred examine all buildings exceeding thirty-five external air external and party-walls External wall feet in height fire floor timbers flue foundation walls hall hoistways horizontal courses inspector of buildings interested party iron laid in cement laid with block leased or rented least less than eight less than twelve lessee masonry notice offal owner or architect PARTY WALLS penalty person Piers or columns piles places of amusement proper refusal or neglect regulation and inspection repair roof SECT securely sewer six inches sixteen inches thick stone in horizontal survey and inspection tenement or lodging-houses tenement-houses thereof transom window TURPENTINE twelve inches thick unless vault ventilating or transom violation of act water-closets or privies wooden building wooden or frame
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Page 20 - In every such house hereafter erected or converted every habitable room, except rooms in the attic, shall be in every part not less than eight feet in height from the floor to the ceiling; and every habitable room in the attic of any such building shall be at least eight feet in height from the floor to the ceiling, throughout not less than one-half the area of such room.
Page 6 - ... 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 17 - ... 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 6 - 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 18 - ... shall thoroughly cleanse all the rooms, passages, stairs, floors, windows, doors, walls, ceilings, privies, cess-pools and drains thereof of the house or part of the house of which he is the owner or lessee, to the satisfaction of the board of health, so often as shall be required by or in accordance with any regulation or ordinance of said...
Page 5 - AN ACT to provide for the Kegulation and Inspection of Buildings, the more effectual Prevention of Fire, and the better Preservation of Life and Property in the City of Boston.
Page 16 - ... thereof up to the surface of the said street or ground, an open space of at least two feet and six inches wide in every part, nor unless the same be well and effectually drained by "means of a drain, the uppermost part of which is one foot at least 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...
Page 18 - ... or part thereof, shall, whenever any person in such house is sick of fever, or of any infectious, pestilential or contagious disease, and such sickness is known to such owner, keeper, agent or lessee, give immediate notice thereof to the board of health, or to some officer of...
Page 17 - ... 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...
Page 17 - ... if the front room is provided with a window as hereinbefore provided, and if the said back vault, cellar, or room is connected with the front vault, cellar, or room, by a door, and also by a proper ventilating or transom window, and, where practicable, also connected by a proper ventilating or transom window, or by some hall or passage...