The Housing HandbookNational Housing Reform Council, 1903 - 371 pages |
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... bedrooms ; 700 with water supply bad or absent . Another enquiry shewed that in 240 villages , with 10,000 dwellings ... bedrooms ; two - thirds of the cottages had no fireplaces , and therefore no ventilation in the bedrooms . In both ...
... bedrooms ; 700 with water supply bad or absent . Another enquiry shewed that in 240 villages , with 10,000 dwellings ... bedrooms ; two - thirds of the cottages had no fireplaces , and therefore no ventilation in the bedrooms . In both ...
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... Bedroom , ( Provinces ) Bedroom , EACH CHILD under 10 . 240 Bedroom , 300 Bedroom , c . ft . 120 150 Houses let in lodgings ( Metropolis ) Living room , 300 Living room , 150 Bedroom , 400 Bedroom , 200 ( Provinces ) Living room , 350 ...
... Bedroom , ( Provinces ) Bedroom , EACH CHILD under 10 . 240 Bedroom , 300 Bedroom , c . ft . 120 150 Houses let in lodgings ( Metropolis ) Living room , 300 Living room , 150 Bedroom , 400 Bedroom , 200 ( Provinces ) Living room , 350 ...
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... bedroom under certain conditions . The legislative restrictions on their use apply with greater stringency in London than elsewhere . [ See p . 76 , Appendix ] . CHAPTER IV . HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACT , THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACTS . 27.
... bedroom under certain conditions . The legislative restrictions on their use apply with greater stringency in London than elsewhere . [ See p . 76 , Appendix ] . CHAPTER IV . HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACT , THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACTS . 27.
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... Bedrooms . ( See pp . 77 and 102. ) Cost of Building , per room , £ 65 . Rent , 1/6 per room , or 7/9 per week per Cottage . It will be noted that the reduction of claims was. MANCHESTER MUNICIPAL COTTAGES - GEORGE LEIGH STREET . Note ...
... Bedrooms . ( See pp . 77 and 102. ) Cost of Building , per room , £ 65 . Rent , 1/6 per room , or 7/9 per week per Cottage . It will be noted that the reduction of claims was. MANCHESTER MUNICIPAL COTTAGES - GEORGE LEIGH STREET . Note ...
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... bedrooms on the first floor . Baths will be provided in many cases , and a number of the houses will be semi - detached . They will cost about £ 42 per room . With the prospect of cheaper interest , and a 60 years ' loan for buildings ...
... bedrooms on the first floor . Baths will be provided in many cases , and a number of the houses will be semi - detached . They will cost about £ 42 per room . With the prospect of cheaper interest , and a 60 years ' loan for buildings ...
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Page 73 - 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 4 - ... order so made in the manner and upon the persons in which and upon whom notices in respect of lands proposed to be taken compulsorily are required by this part of this Act to be served, except tenants for a month or a less period than a month.
Page 21 - ... in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation...
Page 73 - ... 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 16 - ... 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 31 - ... 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 78 - On the receipt of any information respecting the existence of a nuisance the local authority shall, if satisfied of the existence of a nuisance, serve a notice on the person by whose act default or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues, or, if such person cannot be found, on the owner or occupier of the premises on which the nuisance arises...
Page 12 - ... all 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 purposes, executors and administrators, and all parties for the time being entitled to the receipt of the rents and profits of any such lands in possession or subject to any estate in dower, or to any lease for life or for lives, and year or for years, or any less interest...
Page 9 - 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 49 - For the purposes of this act, 1. any premises in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious to health; 2.