The Housing HandbookNational Housing Reform Council, 1903 - 371 pages |
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... ground space is left round each building ; and in the second place , by means of piling up rooms several storeys high , light is obstructed and the air is polluted much more quickly than it can be removed or purified . The latter system ...
... ground space is left round each building ; and in the second place , by means of piling up rooms several storeys high , light is obstructed and the air is polluted much more quickly than it can be removed or purified . The latter system ...
Page 6
... ground of physical unfitness for serving in the army ; Durham , the most overcrowded county in England , at the head of the list for drunkenness ; Sheffield , with a death rate of 4'39 from zymotic diseases , nearly double the average ...
... ground of physical unfitness for serving in the army ; Durham , the most overcrowded county in England , at the head of the list for drunkenness ; Sheffield , with a death rate of 4'39 from zymotic diseases , nearly double the average ...
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... ground landlord of future cottages wherever practicable , and giving easy terms financially to builders , companies , and societies in return for such restrictions and regulations in the lease as will secure the sanitary welfare of the ...
... ground landlord of future cottages wherever practicable , and giving easy terms financially to builders , companies , and societies in return for such restrictions and regulations in the lease as will secure the sanitary welfare of the ...
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... grounds , but fatal to successful building operations , too short periods and , therefore , too heavy annual charges for the repayment of housing loans , a lack of facilities for obtaining government loans at market rates of interest ...
... grounds , but fatal to successful building operations , too short periods and , therefore , too heavy annual charges for the repayment of housing loans , a lack of facilities for obtaining government loans at market rates of interest ...
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... ground adjoining the room . If occupied jointly with other rooms on a higher floor , it may be used as a bedroom under certain conditions . The legislative restrictions on their use apply with greater stringency in London than elsewhere ...
... ground adjoining the room . If occupied jointly with other rooms on a higher floor , it may be used as a bedroom under certain conditions . The legislative restrictions on their use apply with greater stringency in London than elsewhere ...
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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.