Sanitary Survey of the Town of LawrenceDutton & Wentworth, 1850 - 23 pages |
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14 feet Abbott Lawrence accommodation acres agent Andover Atlantic Cotton Mills average age Bay State Mills block board of health boarders boarding-houses Boston built of brick canal capital causes cent Cholera constructed containing cubic feet deaths diseases dysentery elevated employed erected Essex Company established feet in diameter feet in height feet in length feet in width feet wide females filth full operation habits Haverhill street houses inches incorporated inhabitants intemperance Irish iron pipes laborers laid in cement land Lowell males manufacturing town March March 20 Massachusetts Measles Merrimack River occupying owners paid pauper police population principal privy or vault public buildings public house public squares Ratable Polls regulations rooms Samuel Lawrence SANITARY SURVEY Scarlatina selectmen September September 20 single grave soft water specified Spicket stone stories high stories in height taxes tenants tenement Total TOWN OF LAWRENCE Typhus Fever vault or privy watchmen water power yards
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Page 15 - ... in their ports or harbors as they shall judge necessary for the public health and safety; and if any person shall violate any such regulations, he shall forfeit a sum...
Page 15 - SEC. 2. No person shall throw or deposit, or cause to be thrown or deposited, in or upon any vacant lot or open space in the District of Columbia, any sawdust, shavings, vegetable matter, paper, rubbish, litter...
Page 6 - Each tenement cost about $4,000, exclusive of the land, and will compare to advantage with respectable dwelling-houses in Boston, and are much better than the average in country villages. To protect the health of the inmates, underground sewers are constructed under the sheds in the rear of each block, through which a current of water, supplied by iron pipes connected with the canal on the left or above the block, is constantly running, carrying off all the contents of the privies, cesspools, and...
Page 6 - The houses in each block, except the end ones, are like that on the right of the plan here presented. As you enter this tenement on the left there is a small room appropriated exclusively to the mistress of the house. At the right are two dining-rooms, connected by folding doors, each forming pleasant sitting-rooms at other than meal times. Passing through the entry you enter the kitchen, which is furnished with all necessary conveniences. Beyond this is the back kitchen, containing a large boiler...
Page 2 - The grantees are not to use any building for, or to set up or continue any laboratory, powder-mill, furnace or forge, nor any chemical or other works whatever, which may be so noxious or dangerous, from fire or otherwise, as to impair, injure, or endanger the life, safety, health, or reasonable comfort of any person...
Page 6 - ... sewer under the sheds. A well of pure water is connected with every four tenements, and all are supplied with soft water, for washing and other purposes, by cast-iron pipes leading from cisterns in the mills to the sinks in the several houses. On the second floor is the parlour and also the sick-room, a small chamber with a fireplace, designed for an invalid who may need seclusion and extra warmth. Besides these, are sleeping apartments for the boarders in the second and third stories and in...
Page 6 - ... 14 feet wide, and the privies, the whole bordering on a common passage-way 14 feet wide. Under each alternate fence is a double cesspool, serving for two houses, and having an underground passage leading to the common sewer under the sheds. A well of pure water is connected with every four tenements, and all are supplied with soft water, for washing and other purposes, by cast-iron pipes leading from cisterns in the mills to the sinks in the several houses. On the second floor is the...
Page 7 - The rent and the price of board are fixed by the company ; but both are subject to such alteration as the circumstances of the times, and of all the parties interested, shall render just and proper. The tenants of the Bay State boarding-houses now pay $150 each, annually, as rent, which is about three per cent, on the cost.
Page 15 - ... or of good plank, at least two inches thick, and to be made water tight — and all vaults or privies already constructed, not conforming to the foregoing, shall, within thirty days from the date hereof, be so altered, repaired, or rebuilt, as to conform to the above requirements; and whenever any vault or privy shall become offensive, the same shall be cleansed, and the owner or his agent, or the occupant of the land in which any vault or privy may be situated, the state and condition of...