Commonwealth v. Roberts

This is a complaint under the St. of 1885, c. 382, § 2, as amended by the St. of 1889, c. 450, § 2, charging that the defendant,' on May 15, 1890, kept and maintained a dwelling-house on a certain street in Boston, in which street there was a public sewer, and that said dwelling-house “ did not then and there have sufficient water-closets connected with the sewer in said street as aforesaid, nor any water-closets connected with any sewer whatever.”

The St. of 1885, c. 382, § 1, provides that “every building in the city of Boston used as a dwelling, tenement, or lodging-house, or where persons…