The Housing of the Working People: Prepared Under the Direction of Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner of Labor, Volume 8U.S. Government Printing Office, 1895 - 461 pages |
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13 feet 9 feet 9 inches accommodation amount annual Anzin average back-to-back houses bedrooms block board of health brick Building Company built capital ceilings cellar cent CHIG closets constructed containing cooking range corridors court death rate dividend drain Dwellings Company East Canton employees erected feet 6 inches feet 9 four-room tenements francs FRIEDRICHSORT front furnished Glasgow Gothenburg ground floor halls hallways improvement iron kitchen kroner laborers land laundry living room loan lodgers lodging houses London London county council maker marks ments meters model dwellings Mulhouse municipal NOISIEL occupants open space owner paved payment persons pipes placed privy proprietor rear rental Rents are paid roof sanitary authorities Savings Bank sewer sinks Sir Sydney Waterlow square feet staircase stairways story street tene tenement houses three-room tenements tion two-room tenements UNIV ventilation Victoria Square walls water-closet week window shutters
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Page 71 - the health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Page 33 - A tenement house within the meaning of this act shall be taken to mean and include every house, 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...
Page 29 - ... least three feet of its height above the surface of the street or ground adjoining or nearest to the same, nor unless there be outside of and adjoining the...
Page 29 - ... 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 31 - ... from the ground, of at least ten feet, between said buildings, if they are one story high, above the level of the ground ; if they are two stories high, the distance between them shall not be less than fifteen feet ; if they are three stories high, the distance between them shall be twenty feet ; and if they are more than three stories high, the distance between them shall be twenty-five feet. At the rear of every building hereafter erected for...
Page 29 - ... 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...
Page 32 - Every habitable room of a less area than one hundred superficial feet, if it does not communicate directly with the external air, and is without an open fireplace, shall be provided with special, means of ventilation by a separate air-shaft extending to the roof, or otherwise, as the Board of Health may prescribe.
Page 31 - York is infected with contagious disease, or by reason of want of repair has become dangerous to life, or is unfit for human habitation because of defects in drainage, plumbing, ventilation, or the construction of the same, or because of the existence of a nuisance on the premises and which is likely to cause sickness among its occupants...
Page 56 - ... that the evils connected with such houses, courts, or alleys, and the sanitary defects in such area cannot be effectually remedied otherwise than by...
Page 28 - ... or their connections, and to secure the prompt removal of any improper substances that may enter them, so that no accumulation shall take place, and so as to prevent any exhalations therefrom, offensive, dangerous, or prejudicial to life or health, and so as to prevent the same from being or becoming obstructed.