Annual Report of the Homestead Commission, Issue 3Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1916 - City planning |
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Page 98 - Of the members of the commission first appointed one shall hold office for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, one for the term of three years, one for the term of four years, and one for the term of five years, from and after his appointment.
Page 7 - The general court shall have power to authorize the commonwealth to take land and to hold, improve, sub-divide, build upon and sell the same, for the purpose of relieving congestion of population and providing homes for citizens: provided, however, that this amendment shall not be deemed to authorize the sale of such land or buildings at less than the cost thereof.
Page 97 - Shall an act passed by the general court in the year nineteen hundred and eight, entitled 'An Act to authorize cities and towns to establish pension funds for teachers in the public schools,
Page 98 - ... selected, which shall be certified by a majority of them, and filed in the office of the secretary of state and duplicates thereof in the office of the clerk of the county wherein such lands are located.
Page 56 - How is such a helpless patient to remove his sputum, so that it may do no harm? But let us go a step further and picture the condition of a poor consumptive patient's dwelling at night. The whole family sleep crowded together in one small room. However cautious he may be, the sufferer scatters the morbid matter secreted by his diseased lungs every time he coughs, and his relatives close beside him must inhale this poison Thus whole families are infected. They die out, and awaken in the minds of those...
Page 98 - January, in each year, one member of said board shall be appointed to serve for the term of three years from the first day of February...
Page 56 - ... crops up anew, and it is to the abolition of these conditions that we must first and foremost direct our attention if we wish to attack the evil at its root and wage war against it with effective weapons.
Page 56 - But if one investigates these matters more thoroughly one finds that it is not poverty per se that favors tuberculosis, but the bad domestic conditions under which the poor everywhere, but especially in great cities, have to live. For, as the German statistics show, tuberculosis is less frequent, even among the poor, when the population is not densely packed together, and may attain very great dimensions among a well-to-do population when the domestic conditions, especially as regards the bedrooms,...
Page 97 - Any city which accepts the provisions of this act may establish and maintain schools for instructing families and individuals by means of day, part-time or evening classes in gardening, fruit growing, floriculture, poultry keeping, animal husbandry, and other branches of agriculture and horticulture. The location and organization of the said schools, and the instruction given therein shall be subject to the approval of the board of education.
Page 52 - There has been a remarkable falling off, until in the year 1911 the number of cases was only 200. In 1901, 154 people died from typhoid, and this number fell to 42 in 1910. The diminution in the disease runs with the diminution in unsanitary property. The average annual death rate from phthisis has fallen from 4 to 1.9 per 1,000. During the past year, out of 2,601 cases of phthisis, which have been under observation at their own homes, only 33 were found to reside in the dwellings erected by the...