+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED IN HOUSE SCORE CARD | | | | LIGHT--Light enough to read easily in every part. | | | | GLOOMY--Not light enough to read easily in every part, but enough | | readily to see one's way about when doors are closed. | | | | DARK--Too dark to see one's way about easily when doors are | | closed. | | | | WELL VENTILATED--With window on street or fair-sized yard (not | | less than 12 ft. deep for a five-story tenement house not on a | | corner), or on a "large," "well-ventilated" court open to the sky | | at the top: "large" being for a court entirely open on one side to | | the street or yard in a five-story tenement, not less than 6 ft. | | wide from the wall of the building to the lot line; for a court | | inclosed on three sides and the other on the lot line in a | | five-story tenement, not less than 12x24 ft., "well ventilated" | | meaning either entirely open on one side to the street or yard, or | | else having a tunnel at the bottom connecting with the street or | | yard. | | | | FAIRLY VENTILATED--With window opening on a shallow yard or on a | | narrow court, open to the sky at the top, or else with 5x3 inside | | window (15 ft. square) opening on a well-ventilated room in same | | apartment. | | | | BADLY VENTILATED--With no window on the street, or on a yard, or | | on a court open to the sky, and with no window, or a very small | | window, opening on an adjoining room. | | | | IN GOOD REPAIR--No torn wall paper, broken plaster, broken | | woodwork or flooring, nor badly shrunk or warped floor boards or | | wainscoting, leaving large cracks. | | | | IN FAIR REPAIR--Slightly torn or loose wall paper, slightly broken | | plaster, warped floor boards and wainscoting. | | | | IN BAD REPAIR--Very badly torn wall paper or broken plaster over a | | considerable area, or badly broken woodwork or flooring. |