Housing Betterment, Volumes 7-8National Housing Association., 1918 From 1921-27 (v. 10-16) third member of each volume includes "Recent books and reports on housing and town-planning." |
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Page 2 - Corporation — which was an adjunct of the Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation of the Department of Labor — that Bureau, according to a summary of its accomplishments by Joseph D.
Page 8 - Ohio, fixing the cost of extinguishing preventable fires upon citizens disregarding fire prevention orders, and a more general legal recognition of the common law principle of personal liability for damage resulting from fires due to carelessness or neglect. 6. The wider general use of the automatic sprinkler as a fire extinguishing...
Page 31 - Child life, the workers' physical condition and public health demand that the wage-earner and his family shall be given a full opportunity to live under wholesome conditions. It is not only necessary that there shall be sanitary and appropriate houses to live in but that a sufficient number of dwellings shall be available to free the people from high rents and overcrowding. The ownership of homes, free from the grasp of exploitive and speculative interests, will make for more efficient workers, more...
Page 30 - President, in the interest of public health, comfort, morals, safety, and welfare, to provide for the discontinuance of the use as dwellings of buildings situated in alleys and to eliminate the hidden communities in inhabited alleys of the District of Columbia...
Page 12 - In incorporated cities no franchise must be granted for the purpose herein expressed, unless the consent in writing of the owners of a majority of the frontage upon the road or street along which...
Page 38 - ... them to acquire (easily, quickly, and cheaply) all the land they require and to extend their enterprises in housing and town planning, parks, and public libraries, the provision of music and the organization of recreation ; and also to undertake, besides the retailing of coal, other services of common utility, particularly the local supply of milk, wherever this is not already fully and satisfactorily organized by a cooperative society.
Page 33 - States; to acquire by lease or otherwise, through the Administrator of General Services, buildings or parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Administration for a period not to exceed ten years without regard to the Act of March 3, 1877 (40 USC 34...
Page 52 - The general belief among the health profession is that influenza will return next winter, and a full session will therefore be devoted to this subject for the purpose of developing methods of control.
Page 12 - Sites — No building should be erected on a site which shall not have been drained of surface water, or which shall have been filled up with any material impregnated with faecal matter, or with animal or vegetable matter, unless and until such matter shall have been removed, and the ground surface under such building shall be properly asphalted or covered with concrete or other dry and hard material to a thickness of six inches at least.
Page 7 - Association advocated the following measures : 1. The adoption by municipalities of the Standard Building Code of the National Board of Fire Underwriters to the end that fire-resistive building construction may be encouraged, the use of inflammable roof coverings prohibited, adequate exit facilities from buildings assured, and interiors so designed and fire-stopped as to make easy the extinguishment of fires therein. 2. The adoption by all states of minimum building requirements for the protection...