Handbook on Sanitation: A Manual of Theoretical and Practical Sanitation. For Students and Physicians; for Health, Sanitary, Tenement-house, Plumbing, Factory, Food, and Other Inspectors; as Well as for Candidates for All Municipal Sanitary Positions |
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Page 143 - In every tenement house containing fifteen rooms or more, a proper light shall be kept burning by the owner in the public hallways, near the stairs, upon the entrance floor, and upon the second floor above the entrance floor of said house, every night from sunset to sunrise throughout the year, and upon all other floors of the said house from sunset until ten o'clock in the evening.
Page 164 - Impervious floor, constructed of cement or of tiles laid in cement, or of wood which all the crevices shall be filled In with putty, and the whole surface treated with oil varnish. The Inside walls and...
Page 175 - That no fat, tallow or lard shall be melted or rendered, except when fresh from the slaughtered animal, and taken directly from the places of slaughter in the City of New York, and in a condition free from sourness and taint and all other causes of...
Page 272 - The stairways shall be constructed and erected to fully sustain in all their parts a safe load at a ratio of four to one of not less than one hundred pounds per step, with the exception of the tread which must safely sustain at said ratio a load of two hundred pounds.
Page 63 - Each section must be wetted before applying the cement, and the space between each hub and the small end of the next section must be completely and uniformly filled with the best hydraulic cement. Care must be taken to prevent any cement being forced into the drain to become an obstruction. No tempered-up cement shall be used.
Page 257 - Each of such inspectors shall, . twice in each week, make a written report to said Board, stating what duties he has performed and where he has performed them, and also such facts as have come to his knowledge, connected with the purposes of this act, as are by him deemed worthy the attention of said Board, or as its regulations may require of him; and such, and the other reports herein elsewhere mentioned, shall be preserved among the records of said Board.
Page 176 - The boiling of bones and dead animals, etc., shall be conducted in steam-tight kettles, boilers or caldrons, from which the foul vapors shall first be conducted through scrubbers or condensers, and then into the back part of the ash-pit of the furnace fire, to be consumed, or by other apparatus equally efficient in preventing or counteracting the offensive effluvia.
Page 146 - factory," when used in this chapter, shall be construed to include also any mill, workshop or other manufacturing or business establishment where one or more persons are employed at labor.
Page 290 - Area = The cube of the height divided by twice the length of the chord added to two-thirds of the product of chord and height, or the area of the sector which has the same arc, less the area of the triangle formed by the radii and the chord.
Page 173 - ... at least once in every twenty-four hours after the use thereof for any of the purposes herein referred to, and shall also at all times keep all woodwork, save floors and counters, in any building, place or premises aforesaid thoroughly painted or whitewashed...