The Housing HandbookNational Housing Reform Council, 1903 - 371 pages |
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Page vi
... powers as they are by law entrusted with , so as to ensure that no premises shall be allowed to exist in an insanitary state . ( 2 ) More efficient supervision and inspection of the sanitary conditions of the people's dwellings . ( a ) ...
... powers as they are by law entrusted with , so as to ensure that no premises shall be allowed to exist in an insanitary state . ( 2 ) More efficient supervision and inspection of the sanitary conditions of the people's dwellings . ( a ) ...
Page vii
... powers to purchase land for new dwellings under the Housing Acts should be given to the local authority . ( The powers given by the Act of 1890 are better than nothing , but they are far too cumbrous , costly , and inequitable to meet ...
... powers to purchase land for new dwellings under the Housing Acts should be given to the local authority . ( The powers given by the Act of 1890 are better than nothing , but they are far too cumbrous , costly , and inequitable to meet ...
Page xiii
... Powers of Householders , Workmen , Property Owners , Parish Councillors , County Councillors , and Town Councillors . CHAPTER III . - WHAT MAY BE DONE UNDER THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACTS . Duties of Sanitary Inspector - Bye - laws -- Nuisances ...
... Powers of Householders , Workmen , Property Owners , Parish Councillors , County Councillors , and Town Councillors . CHAPTER III . - WHAT MAY BE DONE UNDER THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACTS . Duties of Sanitary Inspector - Bye - laws -- Nuisances ...
Page xv
... Powers of local authorities — Tramway traction , financies , and other details -- Municipal tramways - What has been done- Improved railway facilities required in very large centres of population like London - Existing transit ...
... Powers of local authorities — Tramway traction , financies , and other details -- Municipal tramways - What has been done- Improved railway facilities required in very large centres of population like London - Existing transit ...
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... powers are possessed for securing the abatement of such nuisances ; but it fails- and here is its weak point - it fails to recognise how the enforcement of these powers injuriously affects the working classes themselves . Now , what ...
... powers are possessed for securing the abatement of such nuisances ; but it fails- and here is its weak point - it fails to recognise how the enforcement of these powers injuriously affects the working classes themselves . Now , what ...
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accommodation acres amount annum apply arbitrator average back-to-back houses BEDROOM block dwellings Borough borrow brick byelaws cent charges City Classes Act Clause Commissioners Company confirming authority construction cost of building cottage flats County of London court cubic district council dwelling house erected expenses feet gardens Glasgow Government Board Hornsey housing schemes improvement scheme inches interest labourers land Liverpool local authority Local Government Board lodging houses London County Council Manchester medical officer miles notice nuisance number of rooms occupied officer of health overcrowding owner paid persons PLAN population PORT SUNLIGHT premises Public Health Act Public Health Ireland Public Health Scotland purchase purposes railway rent repairs repayment respect Richmond Road rural district rural sanitary authority sanitary authority Scotland scullery secure sewers shews sinking fund slums square yard storeys Street tenants tenements town tramway urban districts ventilation walls week workmen's dwellings
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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.