Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute, Volume 36

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Page 72 - ... those Acts and in force within the district. (2.) The powers of the local authority under this section shall not be exerciseable in any case in which it is shown, to their satisfaction, that compliance with their order will entail the purchase of additional lands by the owner of the lands on which the new street is intended to be laid out, or the execution of works elsewhere than on those lands. (3.) Where the local authority make an order under this section a person shall not lay out or construct...
Page 71 - With respect to the sufficiency of the space about buildings to secure a free circulation of air, and with respect to the ventilation of buildings...
Page 304 - Nor the place of ceaseless salutes of new-comers or the anchorlifters of the departing, Nor the place of the tallest and costliest buildings or shops selling goods from the rest of the earth, Nor the place of the best libraries and schools, nor the place where money is plentiest, Nor the place of the most numerous population.
Page 304 - Where no monuments exist to heroes but in the common words and deeds, Where thrift is in its place, and prudence is in its place...
Page 436 - Notwithstanding anything in any local Act or bye-law in force in any borough or district, it shall not be lawful to erect any back-to-back houses intended to be used as dwellings for the working classes, and any such house commenced to be erected after the passing of this Act shall be deemed to be unfit for human habitation for the purposes of the provisions of the Housing Acts.
Page 404 - QB', the name of a series of The Law Reports published by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales) App. Cas. Appeal Cases (a series of law reports preceding 'AC
Page 472 - Ought this inconvenience to be considered in fact as more than fanciful, more than one of mere delicacy or fastidiousness, as an inconvenience materially interfering with the ordinary comfort, physically, of human existence, not merely according to elegant or dainty modes and habits of living, but according to plain and sober and simple notions among the English people?
Page 72 - Act, 1875, shall be extended so as to empower the local authority to make byelaws — with respect to the height of chimneys of buildings and with respect to the height of buildings ; and with respect to the structure of chimney shafts for the furnaces of steam engines, breweries, distilleries, or manufactories. Section...
Page 72 - ... adequate opening at either end of the new street, or of securing compliance with any enactment or byelaw in force in the district for the regulation of streets and buildings. The local authority may also by their order fix the points at which the new street shall be deemed to begin or end, and the limits of the new street as determined by the points so fixed shall have effect for the purposes of the Public Health Acts, 1875 to 1907, and of any byelaws made under those Acts and in force within...
Page 71 - The keeping water-closets supplied with sufficient water for flushing ; " The structure of floors, hearths, and staircases, and the height of rooms intended to be used for human habitation...

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