The Housing HandbookNational Housing Reform Council, 1903 - 371 pages |
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Page vii
... Byelaws . The Vestries and District Boards which have not already made and enforced byelaws should proceed to do so , although it is not likely that in all cases such action will be taken until the people shew a more active interest in ...
... Byelaws . The Vestries and District Boards which have not already made and enforced byelaws should proceed to do so , although it is not likely that in all cases such action will be taken until the people shew a more active interest in ...
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... Byelaws of the Local Government Board . " ( 10/6 ; Knight , London ) . Allan's " The Housing of the Working Classes Acts . " ( 7/6 ; Butterworth , London ) . SANITARY . Willoughby's " Health Officer's Pocket Book . " ( 7/6 ; Lockwood ...
... Byelaws of the Local Government Board . " ( 10/6 ; Knight , London ) . Allan's " The Housing of the Working Classes Acts . " ( 7/6 ; Butterworth , London ) . SANITARY . Willoughby's " Health Officer's Pocket Book . " ( 7/6 ; Lockwood ...
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... Bye - laws -- Nuisances - Overcrowding- Structural and sanitary defects - Water supply - Infectious diseases - Com- mon lodging houses - Houses let in lodgings . CHAPTER IV . ABSTRACT OF HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACT , 1890 . How ...
... Bye - laws -- Nuisances - Overcrowding- Structural and sanitary defects - Water supply - Infectious diseases - Com- mon lodging houses - Houses let in lodgings . CHAPTER IV . ABSTRACT OF HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACT , 1890 . How ...
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... BYE - LAWS . Effect of bye - laws on building construction — Cheap building materials— Patent concrete and fire - proof timber construction - Councillor Cornes ' ex- periment at Leek - Baths in workmen's cottages - Bye - laws and wooden ...
... BYE - LAWS . Effect of bye - laws on building construction — Cheap building materials— Patent concrete and fire - proof timber construction - Councillor Cornes ' ex- periment at Leek - Baths in workmen's cottages - Bye - laws and wooden ...
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... of the people as bad in many respects as it was before . The product of private enterprise , then , is insufficient in quantity and inferior in quality . The Building Acts and byelaws , although excellent in their THE HOUSE FAMINE . 9.
... of the people as bad in many respects as it was before . The product of private enterprise , then , is insufficient in quantity and inferior in quality . The Building Acts and byelaws , although excellent in their THE HOUSE FAMINE . 9.
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Page 14 - ... corporations, tenants in tail or for life, married women seised in their own right or entitled to dower, guardians, committees of lunatics and idiots, trustees, or feoffees in trust for charitable or other...
Page 75 - means any drain of and used for the drainage of one building only, or premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of communicating therefrom with a cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed : "Sewer" includes sewers and drains of every description, except drains to which the word
Page 75 - ... premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of communicating therefrom with a cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed : " Sewer " includes sewers and drains of every description, except drains to which the word '• drain...
Page 18 - ... it prevents proper measures from being carried into effect for remedying any nuisance injurious to health or other sanitary evils in respect of such other buildings...
Page 33 - ... 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 11 - Act, 1845, with respect to the settlement of disputes by arbitration, shall be incorporated with this Act ; and in the construction of such provisions this Act shall be deemed to be the special Act, and "the company...
Page 52 - For the purposes of this act, 1. any premises in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious to health; 2.
Page 226 - Act) be settled by an engineer or other fit person nominated as referee by the Board of Trade on the application of either party, and the expenses of the reference shall be borne and paid as the referee directs.
Page 79 - 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 85 - ... me] that the nuisance so complained of doth exist on the said premises, and that the same is caused by the act or default of the owner [or occupier] of the said premises [or by the said...