Reports of the President's Homes Commission Appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt, Volumes 1-4 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 79
Page 11
... floor was on a level with the ground , without any ventilation under it . As a result of this , the sills soon became rotten , and damp- ness from the ground came through the floors . As a rule , also , there was no water in the house ...
... floor was on a level with the ground , without any ventilation under it . As a result of this , the sills soon became rotten , and damp- ness from the ground came through the floors . As a rule , also , there was no water in the house ...
Page 12
... floors , overcrowded , below grade , having stagnant water underneath , no drainage , no pure water supply , no fire protection , having filthy yards , dilapidated , filthy privy and leaky privy box , in bad sanitary condition generally ...
... floors , overcrowded , below grade , having stagnant water underneath , no drainage , no pure water supply , no fire protection , having filthy yards , dilapidated , filthy privy and leaky privy box , in bad sanitary condition generally ...
Page 13
... floors damp and broken ; walls begrimmed by smoke and age ; so domiciled are families with all the dignity of tenants having rent to pay . The board has condemned 153 such during the past year and 958 during the past four years , of ...
... floors damp and broken ; walls begrimmed by smoke and age ; so domiciled are families with all the dignity of tenants having rent to pay . The board has condemned 153 such during the past year and 958 during the past four years , of ...
Page 16
... floor , which is not infrequently below the street level ; the rooms are small ; a narrow , dark stairway leads to the upstairs bedrooms ; the roofs are often leaky and the plastering falling ; a lean - to kitchen in the rear , eight or ...
... floor , which is not infrequently below the street level ; the rooms are small ; a narrow , dark stairway leads to the upstairs bedrooms ; the roofs are often leaky and the plastering falling ; a lean - to kitchen in the rear , eight or ...
Page 19
... floor plans of the Sanitary Improvement Company are shown in Figures 13 and 14 , and the specifications for these houses are given in full for the benefit of those who may wish to copy them . Specifications of the labor and materials to ...
... floor plans of the Sanitary Improvement Company are shown in Figures 13 and 14 , and the specifications for these houses are given in full for the benefit of those who may wish to copy them . Specifications of the labor and materials to ...
Common terms and phrases
acid alcohol alleys amount anthrax Asthma average bath Board boiled building calories carbonic acid Catarrh cause cent certifying surgeon cocaine colored Commissioners Committee Company consumption contain cooking cost danger death rate digestive diphtheria disease District District of Columbia drink drug dust dwellings effects Emmett L employees fact factory or workshop families feet floor fumes germs grams habit Headache Cure Headache Powder heat houses Hygiene improved industrial infant infection insanitary labor lead lead poisoning less liable loan manufacture Massachusetts meal meat ment milk month morphine mortality nailbrushes occupations opium patients persons employed pneumonia poisoning prevent protein reason regulations remedies rent rentals rules salt scarlet fever skin Street suitable supply syphilis temperature tenants tenement tion treatment tuberculosis typhoid fever ventilation Virginia pine wage-earners washing Washington Sanitary workers
Popular passages
Page 196 - ... Second. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or if the contents of the 'package as originally put up shall have been removed in whole or in part and other contents shall have been placed in such package or if...
Page 139 - ... in the case of partial incapacity the weekly payment shall in no case exceed the difference between the amount of the average weekly earnings of the workman before the accident and the average weekly amount...
Page 169 - During the period between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise...
Page 254 - Such register shall be open for inspection to the said commissioners, their officers and agents, on every day, except Sundays and legal holidays, between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and five o'clock in the afternoon.
Page 139 - Any weekly payment may be reviewed at the request either of the employer or of the workman, and on such review may be ended, diminished, or increased, subject to the maximum above provided; and the amount of payment shall, in default of agreement, be settled by arbitration under this act.
Page 165 - Unless the cargo is stowed sufficiently far from the ladder to leave at each rung of the ladder sufficient room for a man's feet.
Page 77 - ... and to carry away the dust arising from or thrown off by such wheels or belts while in operation directly to the outside of the building, or to some receptacle placed so as to receive and confine such...
Page 154 - Act, unless he proves that he had taken all reasonable means, by publishing and to the best of his power enforcing the said rules as regulations for the working of the mine, to prevent such contravention or non-compliance.
Page 13 - An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia", approved March 3, 1901, as amended (DC Code, sec.
Page 155 - Whereas the manufacture of electric accumulators has been certified in pursuance of Section 79 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, to be dangerous ; I hereby, in pursuance of the powers conferred on me by that Act, make the following regulations, and direct that they shall apply to all factories and workshops or parts thereof in which electric accumulators are manufactured. Definitions. — In these Regulations ' lead process ' means pasting, casting, lead burning, or any work involving contact...