The Housing HandbookNational Housing Reform Council, 1903 - 371 pages |
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Page vi
... carrying out schemes for better housing bear a striking resemblance to those which were contained in the recommendations of the Royal Commission of 1885 . To shew how nearly this is the case it is only necessary to compare the appended ...
... carrying out schemes for better housing bear a striking resemblance to those which were contained in the recommendations of the Royal Commission of 1885 . To shew how nearly this is the case it is only necessary to compare the appended ...
Page vii
... carrying out of this recommendation by a royal visit to the London County Council dwellings erected on the site of Millbank Prison ) . ( 12 ) The water supply should , as a general rule , be in the hands of the local authority . ( 13 ) ...
... carrying out of this recommendation by a royal visit to the London County Council dwellings erected on the site of Millbank Prison ) . ( 12 ) The water supply should , as a general rule , be in the hands of the local authority . ( 13 ) ...
Page viii
... carried out in subsequent Acts of Parliament . Nominally this may be so in most cases , but what is wanted above everything else is that legislation should be so direct and simple in procedure as to effectively fulfil the ...
... carried out in subsequent Acts of Parliament . Nominally this may be so in most cases , but what is wanted above everything else is that legislation should be so direct and simple in procedure as to effectively fulfil the ...
Page 8
... carry out their duties as regards the abatement of nuisances ? When the sanitary inspector calls , the tenant remembers that although the house certainly is unhealthy , yet a poor house is better than none , and that if he offends the ...
... carry out their duties as regards the abatement of nuisances ? When the sanitary inspector calls , the tenant remembers that although the house certainly is unhealthy , yet a poor house is better than none , and that if he offends the ...
Page 10
... carrying out the Sanitary Acts . It cannot be too strongly insisted upon that the increased cost of building has more to do with the house famine in suburban and rural districts than the cost of land . The difficulty of obtaining land ...
... carrying out the Sanitary Acts . It cannot be too strongly insisted upon that the increased cost of building has more to do with the house famine in suburban and rural districts than the cost of land . The difficulty of obtaining land ...
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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...