Reports of the President's Homes Commission Appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt, 1–4. köide |
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... districts , such as the Canon- gate and S. Giles , this proportion is as high as 70 per cent . " This enormous amount of overcrowding not only enables high rents to be obtained , but by the increased wear and tear of the houses , by the ...
... districts , such as the Canon- gate and S. Giles , this proportion is as high as 70 per cent . " This enormous amount of overcrowding not only enables high rents to be obtained , but by the increased wear and tear of the houses , by the ...
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... districts are unhealthy and even dangerous symptoms in our modern life . " We should not permit overcrowding in cities . In certain European cities it is provided by law that the population of towns shall not be allowed to exceed a very ...
... districts are unhealthy and even dangerous symptoms in our modern life . " We should not permit overcrowding in cities . In certain European cities it is provided by law that the population of towns shall not be allowed to exceed a very ...
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... District Commissioners in the vain endeavor to secure laws permitting the condemnation of insanitary dwellings . The local death rates , especially from preventable diseases , are so unduly high as to suggest that the exceptional ...
... District Commissioners in the vain endeavor to secure laws permitting the condemnation of insanitary dwellings . The local death rates , especially from preventable diseases , are so unduly high as to suggest that the exceptional ...
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... District . " As specific examples of overcrowding , at a later date , I quote from the report of Miss De Graffenried , published in 1896 : " One conclusion at least is evident , that rents in these alleys are dear , con- sidering the ...
... District . " As specific examples of overcrowding , at a later date , I quote from the report of Miss De Graffenried , published in 1896 : " One conclusion at least is evident , that rents in these alleys are dear , con- sidering the ...
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... district to contend with . New dwellings are occasionally erected here by the colored people themselves , but there is no active building going on . The dwellings here do not differ much from those described as existing Fig . 1 within ...
... district to contend with . New dwellings are occasionally erected here by the colored people themselves , but there is no active building going on . The dwellings here do not differ much from those described as existing Fig . 1 within ...
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Page 196 - ... Second. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or if the contents of the 'package as originally put up shall have been removed in whole or in part and other contents shall have been placed in such package or if...
Page 139 - ... in the case of partial incapacity the weekly payment shall in no case exceed the difference between the amount of the average weekly earnings of the workman before the accident and the average weekly amount...
Page 169 - During the period between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise...
Page 254 - Such register shall be open for inspection to the said commissioners, their officers and agents, on every day, except Sundays and legal holidays, between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and five o'clock in the afternoon.
Page 139 - Any weekly payment may be reviewed at the request either of the employer or of the workman, and on such review may be ended, diminished, or increased, subject to the maximum above provided; and the amount of payment shall, in default of agreement, be settled by arbitration under this act.
Page 165 - Unless the cargo is stowed sufficiently far from the ladder to leave at each rung of the ladder sufficient room for a man's feet.
Page 77 - ... and to carry away the dust arising from or thrown off by such wheels or belts while in operation directly to the outside of the building, or to some receptacle placed so as to receive and confine such...
Page 154 - Act, unless he proves that he had taken all reasonable means, by publishing and to the best of his power enforcing the said rules as regulations for the working of the mine, to prevent such contravention or non-compliance.
Page 13 - An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia", approved March 3, 1901, as amended (DC Code, sec.
Page 155 - Whereas the manufacture of electric accumulators has been certified in pursuance of Section 79 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, to be dangerous ; I hereby, in pursuance of the powers conferred on me by that Act, make the following regulations, and direct that they shall apply to all factories and workshops or parts thereof in which electric accumulators are manufactured. Definitions. — In these Regulations ' lead process ' means pasting, casting, lead burning, or any work involving contact...