Digest of the Statutes and of the Ordinances Relating to the Construction, Maintenance and Inspection of Buildings in the City of Boston, 1901

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... 481 repeals all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with it, It would seem as if chapter 341, of 18U4, was repealed. containing ten or more rooms above the second story, shall place or cause to be placed a knotted rope or other better appliance for use as a fire escape in every room of said hotel used as a lodging room, except rooms on the ground floor, which knotted rope or other better appliance shall be securely fastened at one end of it to a suitable iron hook or eye to be securely screwed into one of the joists or timbers next adjoining the frame of the window, or one of the windows of said room at least five feet from the floor, which rope shall be at all times kept coiled and exposed to the plain view of any occupant of said room; the coil to be fastened in such manner as to be easily and quickly loosened and uncoiled; such rope shall contain knots not more than eighteen inches apart, and a loop on the end at least three inches in length, and shall not be less than one half inch in diameter, and of sufficient length to reach from such window to the ground. Such rope, iron hook or eye and fastenings shall be of sufficient strength to sustain a weight of four hundred pounds, and there shall be plain directions how to use such rope or other better appliance printed and posted within six inches of the hook or eye to which the rope is fastened. Sect. 45 It shall be the duty of the inspector of buildings of every city or town in the Commonwealth, or if there is no such officer, of the chief engineer of the fire department of every city or town in the Commonwealth, in the month of May of each year to inspect every room of every hotel and lodging house of ten or more rooms above the second story in the city or town in which he is performing the duty of insp...