What to do and how to do it : a manual of the law affecting the housing and sanitary condition of Londoners ; with special reference to the dwellings of the poor.

  • Sanitary Laws Enforcement Society (London)
Date:
1884
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Credit: What to do and how to do it : a manual of the law affecting the housing and sanitary condition of Londoners ; with special reference to the dwellings of the poor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    the notice of those who study the condition of dwellings of the poorer class. Narrow streets are well known to be often detrimental to health. In the Metropolitan Management Act, 1878,1 it is enacted that no external wall shall, without the express consent of the Metropolitan Board of Works, be erected at less than twenty feet from the centre of the roadway, giving a minimum width, therefore, of forty feet for any new street.2 AREA IN REAR OF DWELLINGS. It is also often found that the space behind dwelling-houses is most inadequate and unsatisfactory from the sanitary point of view. The law on this head has been recently amended, and now stands on a much better footing than it did. The 14th section of the Metropolitan Management Act of 1882 contains the following provisions:— ' Every new building begun to be erected upon a site not previously occupied in whole or in part by a building, after the passing of this Act, intended to be used wholly or in part as a dwelling-house, shall, unless the Board otherwise permit, have directly attached thereto, and in the rear thereof, an open space exclusively belonging thereto of the following extent:— 'Where such building has a frontage not exceeding 15 feet, the extent of the open space shall be 150 square feet at the least. 'Where such building has a frontage exceeding 15 feet, but not exceeding 20 feet, the extent of the open space shall be 200 square feet at the least. 'Where such building has a frontage exceeding 20 feet » 18, 19 Vict. c. 120, §. 125. 2 Section 6.