The Archive · 1936

Outswinging Windows

DANGEROUS PRACTICE

To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cuma Day News"

Su—In today's Issue of the "North-China Daily News" an account appears of the death of a Chinese mah, killed by a fall whilst cleaning a window of the Broadway Mansions, Why must windows of these bulld-{ings be made (o open out instead of in? One would think that architects and building authorities would realize the danger. T have often looked up apprehensively at a window. swing-Jing backwards and forwards in the wind, wondering how soon the crash would come and who would be the unfortunate person walking below.

1 do not know the requirements and regulations of other large cities, bhut the constant danger of allowing this practice in Shanghai should be ut a stop to immediately.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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