People ex rel. Sprenger v. Department of Health

Sprenger, the relator, applies for a writ of mandamus to. compel the board of health to approve, as a site for a sanatorium, property owned by him in a residential neighborhood. Defendant’s regulations relative to sanatoria provide for the approval of the structure by the building and fire departments, and then require “ the sanitary condition thereof and the location of the building to be approved by the department of health.” The plans *226have been approved by the fire and building departments. The respondent admits that the location is, from a sanitary standpoint, unobjectionable, and that,…