The Housing Problem: Its History, Growth, Legislation and ProcedureSir I. Pitman & sons, Limited, 1920 - 544 pages |
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... supply and freedom from continental wars , resulted in Introduction , increase of towns and the rapid growth of a population devoted to manufactures . The movement of ideas was two - fold . The new political theory of Bentham ...
... supply and freedom from continental wars , resulted in Introduction , increase of towns and the rapid growth of a population devoted to manufactures . The movement of ideas was two - fold . The new political theory of Bentham ...
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... supply and demand . It is not practicable here to describe the work of the sanitary reformers who , by their zeal and untiring devotion , built up this sanitary legislation , but a deep debt of gratitude is due to their memory . They ...
... supply and demand . It is not practicable here to describe the work of the sanitary reformers who , by their zeal and untiring devotion , built up this sanitary legislation , but a deep debt of gratitude is due to their memory . They ...
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... supply , the construction of sewers , etc./ Liverpool was the first provincial Corporation to obtain ( in 1748 ) an Act of Parliament for lighting , cleansing , and watching its streets , viz . An Act for the building a church in the ...
... supply , the construction of sewers , etc./ Liverpool was the first provincial Corporation to obtain ( in 1748 ) an Act of Parliament for lighting , cleansing , and watching its streets , viz . An Act for the building a church in the ...
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... supply them with all requisite furniture , fittings and conveniences ( sec . 36 ) . As to the land on which these lodging houses are to be built , it may be obtained in two ways— ( 1 ) The commissioners , with the consent of the vestry ...
... supply them with all requisite furniture , fittings and conveniences ( sec . 36 ) . As to the land on which these lodging houses are to be built , it may be obtained in two ways— ( 1 ) The commissioners , with the consent of the vestry ...
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... supply effective housing accommodation , and as a consequence large masses of the working classes , compelled to live near the factory owing to the exigencies of labour , were crowded into unhealthy and insani- tary slums ; while the ...
... supply effective housing accommodation , and as a consequence large masses of the working classes , compelled to live near the factory owing to the exigencies of labour , were crowded into unhealthy and insani- tary slums ; while the ...
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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...
Page 545 - In demy 8vo, cloth gilt, 238 pp. 7s. 6d. net. MANUFACTURING BOOK-KEEPING AND COSTS. By GEORGE JOHNSON. FCIS In demy 8vo, cloth gilt, 120 pp. 3s. 6d. net. COMPANY ACCOUNTS. By ARTHUR COLES.
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...