tenement

In major cities, middle-class reformers opened settlement houses for poor immigrants, enacted housing codes to ban cold-water tenements and set up free public schools.

Roads have been cordoned off and homes evacuated after a derelict tenement building collapsed in Glasgow.

A chihuahua has been rescued from a building destroyed by fire in Perth after surviving for nearly two weeks in the tenement.

It is the second major fire to hit a building in the city in the space of a week after a tenement on the corner of South Street and Scott Street was destroyed last Saturday.

A couple whose flat was destroyed in a fatal tenement fire in Perth said they considered "jumping out the building" to escape the blaze.