Manual of the Board of Health of the Health Department of the City of New York ... 1874Appleton, 1874 |
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Page 90 - Trustee shall be elected for one year, one for two years, one for three years, and one for four years, and...
Page 153 - A tenement-house within the meaning of this title shall be taken to mean and include any house or building, or portion thereof, which is rented, leased, let or hired out, to be occupied, or is occupied as the home or residence of three families or more living independently of each other, and doing their cooking upon the premises, or by more than two families upon any floor, so living and cooking, but having a common right in the halls, stairways, yards, water-closets or privies, or some of them.
Page 148 - ... of at least two feet and six inches wide in every part ; nor unless the same be well and effectually drained by means of a drain, the uppermost part of which is one foot at least below the level of the floor of such vault, cellar, or room ; nor unless there is a clear space of not less than one foot below the level of the floor, except where the same is cemented ; nor unless there be appurtenant to such vault, cellar, or room the use of a water-closet or privy...
Page 100 - ... may specify, is a public nuisance, and may order the same to be removed, abated, suspended, altered or otherwise improved or purified, as the order shall specify.
Page 96 - York, by and with the advice and consent of the board of aldermen, the president of the board of aldermen, the president of the board of assistant aldermen...
Page 117 - Brooklyn, are hereby respectively empowered and directed annually to order and cause to be raised and collected by tax upon the estates, real and personal, subject to taxation according to law, within the said...
Page 35 - tenement-house " shall be taken to mean and include every house, building, or portion thereof which' is rented, leased, let, or hired out to be occupied, or is occupied as the house, home, or residence of more than three families living independently of one another, and doing their cooking upon the premises, or by more than two families upon a floor, so living and cooking, but having a common right in the halls, stairways, yards, water-closets, or privies, or some of them.
Page 171 - Finance ; a receipt for each payment made on account of, or in the satisfaction of, the same shall be indorsed on the said contract by the party receiving the warrant; which warrant shall be only given to the person interested in such contract, or his authorized representative. The proceeds of all sales, made under and by virtue of this...
Page 77 - Nor shall any person by any exposure of any individual sick of any contagious disease, or of the body of such person, or by any negligent act connected therewith or in respect of the care or custody thereof, or by a needless exposure of himself. cause or contribute to or promote the spread of disease from any such person or from any dead body.
Page 135 - ... of health any false or deceptive report or statement in connection with his duties, or shall accept or receive, or authorize or encourage, or knowingly allow any other person to accept or receive any bribe or other compensation as a condition of or an inducement for not faithfully discovering and fully reporting, or otherwise acting, according to his duty in any respect, then any and every such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor...