AN OVERCROWDED DWELLING.
To the Editor of the Globe. Sib, —Would you mind informing me through the columns of the “ Globe” whether there is any such by-law or Act in force in this part of the colony as a “ cubic air” Act or Ordinance. I mean an Act providing for the minimum air space a building must have to bo habitable for human beings. lam well aware that the air space in a great many domiciles here is considerably more airy than the occupants believe in, but I think that tho avariciousness of some landlords wants curbing a little too. Take, for example, a six-roomed shanty—the four up-stairs rooms rented to accommodate nine souls, and the two downstair rooms rented to a man and his wife and two lodgers and four children. What about air space for them. Yours, &0., A LYTTELTON FATHER. August 3rd, 1880. [There is no Lodging House Act in force in this colony.—Ed. Globe.]
The following letter appears in this mornng’s issue of the “Press ”
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2011, 4 August 1880, Page 3
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169AN OVERCROWDED DWELLING. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2011, 4 August 1880, Page 3
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