Report of the Tenement House Committee as Authorized by Chapter 479 of the Laws of 1894J.B. Lyon, state printer, 1895 - 649 pages |
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Page 560 - AN ACT to amend chapter four hundred and ten of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled " An Act to consolidate into one act and to declare the special and local laws affecting public interests in the City of New York.
Page 580 - Every tenement house shall have water furnished in sufficient quantity at one or more places on each floor occupied by or intended to be occupied by one or more families.
Page 563 - Any house or part of a house so overcrowded as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the inmates, whether or not members of the same family : 6.
Page 561 - In such proceeding evidence shall be receivable by the commissioners to prove : 1. 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 567 - ... 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...
Page 561 - ... 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 561 - ... external window, and so as to allow between every part of such steps and the external wall of such vault, cellar or...
Page 551 - Board an order putting in force as respects the land specified in the order the provisions of the Lands Clauses Acts with respect to the purchase and taking of land otherwise than by agreement.
Page 569 - ... 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...