Practical Homemaking; a Textbook for Young HousekeepersCentury Company, 1914 - 151 pages |
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Page 66 - Every tenement or lodging house, and every part thereof, shall be kept clean and free from any accumulation •of dirt, filth, garbage, or other matter in or on the same, or in the yard, court, passage, area, or alley connected with or belonging to the same.
Page 57 - tenement house ' is 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...
Page 57 - 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...
Page 9 - No room in any tenement house shall be so overcrowded that there shall be afforded less than four hundred cubic feet of air to each adult, and two hundred cubic feet of air to each child under twelve years of age occupying such room.
Page 9 - tenement-house '' 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, 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 59 - ... sinks shall be left open. The floors and wall surfaces beneath and around the sink shall be maintained in good order and repair, and if of wood shall be kept well painted with light-colored paint.
Page 59 - All woodwork enclosing water closet fixtures shall be removed from the front of the closet and the space underneath the seat shall be left open. The floor or other surface beneath and around the closet shall be maintained in good order and repair and all the woodwork shall be kept well painted with a light color paint.
Page 9 - Tenement House" is any house or building or portion thereof, which is either rented, leased, let, or hired out, to be occupied, or is occupied, in whole or in part, as the home or residence of three families or more living independently of each other, and doing their cooking upon the premises, and includes apartment houses, flat houses and all other houses so occupied.
Page 58 - In every tenement house hereafter erected there shall be a separate water-closet in a separate compartment within each apartment of four or more rooms. Where apartments consist of less than four rooms there shall be at least one water-closet for every three rooms, and on the same floor with said rooms.
Page 66 - No person shall place filth, urine or fecal matter in any place in a tenement house other than that provided for the same, or keep filth, urine or fecal matter in his apartment or upon his premises such length of time as to create a nuisance.