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Excerpt from Recap The Committee on the Prevention of Tuberculosis, which is deeply interested in decreasing in every way practicable the extent of tuberculosis in this city, and which includes among its members most of the city's leading physicians who have made a special study of this disease, respectfully submits for the attention of the Board of Aldermen and the public the following considerations with reference to the proposed building code now pending before that Board: While we appreciate the disinterested public service which has been rendered, and the genuine desire for improvement over present conditions which has actuated the members of the Committee who have formulated the proposed building code now under consideration, we are constrained to point out certain vital considerations in which the code is so defective as to make unwise its adoption in its present form. We are not unmindful of the many good features of the code, nor of the attempt made to advance the interests of the public, but the methods employed are so inadequate and fall so far short of what is desirable as the "irreducible minimum," that we are forced to the conclusion that it would be far better for the community to have the code remain entirely silent upon certain questions than to attempt to enact provisions as inadequate as those contained in it. This Committee is primarily interested only in those provisions of the code which affect adversely or favorably the living and working conditions of our citizens from the point of view of tuberculosis prevention. While as individuals we may be deeply interested in many provisions of the code having to do with the safety of buildings and the protection of their inmates in case of fire, as members of this Committee our interest centers only around questions which deal with light and ventilation. We realize fully that at the present time, with the exception of tenement houses, lodging houses, hotels, office buildings and private dwellings, there are no legal requirements limiting the amount of lot that can be covered or regulating the spaces that shall be left unoccupied for the purpose of supplying light and ventilation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.