The Housing of the PoorCassell, Limited, 1891 - 104 էջ |
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A. R. Wallace accommodation Ancoats artisans Bethnal Green blocks built carried Cassell's cellar cent Commissioners companies cost cottages Cross's Acts deal death-rate disease drainage duty economic erected evils existing expenses experience extent families Government Board habits improvement industrial infectious injurious to health insanitary houses interference J. S. Mill laissez faire land large number large towns legislation limited living loans lodging houses lodging-houses London County Council Lord Salisbury Lord Shaftesbury Manchester medical officer ment metropolis municipal Nuisance Removal Act occupied Octavia Hill overcrowding owners Peabody Trust persons poor population portion powers private enterprise Prof provision of dwellings Public Health Act question re-housing rents Ritchie's Royal Commission rural districts rural sanitary rural sanitary authorities rural sanitary districts Salford sanitary authority sanitary condition sanitary districts sanitary law sanitary matters scheme societies tenants tenement houses tenements tion unhealthy ventilation vestries Vict Vols wages water supply
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Էջ 26 - For fixing and from time to time varying the number of persons who may occupy a house or part of a house which is let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family...
Էջ 50 - The necessaries for the efficiency of an ordinary agricultural or of an unskilled town laborer and his family, in England, in this generation, may be said to consist of a well-drained dwelling with several rooms, warm clothing, with some changes of underclothing, pure water, a plentiful supply of cereal food, with a moderate allowance of meat and milk, and a little tea, etc., some education, and some recreation, and lastly, sufficient freedom for his wife from other work to enable her to perform...
Էջ 22 - For the purposes of this act, 1. any premises in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious to health; 2.
Էջ 48 - ... provided that the assistance is not such as to dispense with self-help, by substituting itself for the person's own labour, skill, and prudence, but is limited to affording him a better hope of attaining success by those legitimate means. This accordingly is a test to which all plans of philanthropy and benevolence should be brought, whether intended for the benefit of individuals or of classes, and whether conducted on the voluntary or on the government principle.
Էջ 41 - Writers on Political Economy profess to teach, or to investigate, the nature of Wealth, and the laws of its production and distribution : including, directly or remotely, the operation of all the causes by which the condition of mankind, or of any society of human beings, in respect of this universal object of human desire, is made prosperous or the reverse.
Էջ 49 - a more careful analysis has brought into prominence the distinction between the necessaries for efficiency and the necessaries for existence, and has made it evident that there is for each rank of industry, at any time and place, a more or less clearly defined income which is necessary for merely sustaining its members ; while there is another and larger income which is necessary for keeping it in full efficiency.
Էջ 33 - Authority that within a certain area in the district of such authority either — (a) any houses, courts, or alleys are unfit for human habitation, or (b) the narrowness, closeness, and bad arrangement, or the bad condition of the streets and houses or groups of houses within such area, or the want of light, air, ventilation, or proper conveniences, or any other sanitary defects, or one or more of such causes, are dangerous or injurious to the health of the inhabitants either of the buildings in...
Էջ 47 - Energy and self-dependence are, however, liable to be impaired by the absence of help, as well as by its excess. It is even more fatal to exertion to have no hope of succeeding by it, than to be assured of succeeding without it.
Էջ 25 - For the purpose of this section an underground bakehouse shall mean a bakehouse, any baking room of which is so situate that the surface of the floor is more than three feet below the surface of the footway of the adjoining street, or of the ground adjoining or nearest to the room.
Էջ 28 - That the rental of the building was enhanced by reason of the same being used for illegal purposes, or being so overcrowded as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the inmates: or 2.