The Housing Problem: Its History, Growth, Legislation and ProcedureSir I. Pitman & sons, Limited, 1920 - 544 pages |
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... population . It is a truism that unhealthy houses and insanitary surroundings are unfavourable to the growth of strong and healthy citizens , but it is only of late years that this fact has been borne in upon the nation as a whole . The ...
... population . It is a truism that unhealthy houses and insanitary surroundings are unfavourable to the growth of strong and healthy citizens , but it is only of late years that this fact has been borne in upon the nation as a whole . The ...
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... population . The reason why , after years of effort , the slum problem remains unsolved is that the work has proved too costly and that taken as a whole , the tenants of the houses demolished have not been re- housed in the new houses ...
... population . The reason why , after years of effort , the slum problem remains unsolved is that the work has proved too costly and that taken as a whole , the tenants of the houses demolished have not been re- housed in the new houses ...
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... population exceeding 20,000 . At the same time care is being taken that the houses to be provided under the subsidized schemes fit into the probable town - planning develop- ment of the area . The further ideal of regional planning can ...
... population exceeding 20,000 . At the same time care is being taken that the houses to be provided under the subsidized schemes fit into the probable town - planning develop- ment of the area . The further ideal of regional planning can ...
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... population devoted to manufactures . The movement of ideas was two - fold . The new political theory of Bentham , Mackintosh , Grote , and Mill developed side by side with the economic theory of Adam Smith , Malthus , Ricardo and Mill ...
... population devoted to manufactures . The movement of ideas was two - fold . The new political theory of Bentham , Mackintosh , Grote , and Mill developed side by side with the economic theory of Adam Smith , Malthus , Ricardo and Mill ...
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... population which the development of industry had brought in its train . The housing of this population was the next problem which confronted them , if the national health and physique were to be maintained . Shorter hours and better ...
... population which the development of industry had brought in its train . The housing of this population was the next problem which confronted them , if the national health and physique were to be maintained . Shorter hours and better ...
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accommodation acquired acquisition acre Amendment amount annual apply approved assisted scheme authority back-to-back houses borough Bournville building built by-laws capital cent City Classes Act clause cloth gilt Committee common lodging-house compensation cost cottages demy 8vo District Council dwelling-house dwellings economic rent erection estimated expenditure expenses financial assistance Garden Government Board Housing Acts Housing and Town housing schemes included increase industrial insanitary interest labour lease Liverpool local authority Local Government Board London County Council Majesty's Treasury medical officer ment Minister of Health Ministry necessary number of houses occupied officer of health official arbitrator overcrowding owner Parliament payable persons population Port Sunlight powers principal Act proposed Public Health Act public utility societies Public Works Loan purchase purpose re-housing regard regulations rent respect rooms Rural District sanitary secure slum Street tenants tenements thereof tion town planning scheme Urban District Vict wages
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Page 509 - To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled...
Page 43 - ... in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation...
Page 419 - Act into effect, and any regulations so made shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament as soon as may be...
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Page 303 - ... securing proper sanitary conditions, amenity, and convenience in connection with the laying out and use of the land, and of any neighbouring lands.
Page 13 - Observance of the same by enacting therein such Provisions as they think necessary as to the giving of Notices, as to the Deposit of Plans and Sections by Persons intending to lay out Streets or to construct Buildings...
Page 236 - ... a condition that the house is at the commencement of the tenancy, and an undertaking that the house will be kept by the landlord during the tenancy, in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation...
Page 1 - Palaces, baronial castles, great halls, stately mansions, do not make a nation. The nation in every country dwells in the cottage ; and unless the light of your constitution can shine there, unless the beauty of your legislation and the excellence of your statesmanship are impressed there on the feelings and condition of the people, rely upon it you have yet to learn the duties of government.
Page 64 - If the Local Government Board make a recommendation to that effect, the period for which the loan is made by the Public Works Loan Commissioners may exceed the period allowed under the...