[City of Glasgow Sanitary Inspector] Letter Book No 53
- Reference:GB 243 D-HE1/13
- Dates of Creation:Jan 1915 - Aug 1915
- Language of Material:English
- Physical Description:1 volume Volume
Scope and Content
Typed outgoing letters from the Sanitary Inspector and staff mostly on low-level administrative matters such as invoices and supplies as well as prosecutions, milk supply, staffing issues etc. Some of the longer letters include dust etc readings in Glasgow for December 1914 (p9); letter to Chief Sanitary Inspector of Edinburgh on clauses concerning farmed-out houses in their Provisional Order (p21); letter to Town Clerk on burial of unclaimed bodies (p76, p220); letter to Physician Superintendent of Motherwell County Hospital on the Glasgow disinfection scheme (p146); list of factories making army clothing with unsatisfactory conditions (p188); letter agreeing to give a lecture on Sanitation and War and outlining the issues currently experienced in Glasgow on town planning and housing (p201); further letter on housing (p211); list of slum localities to be visited by the Presbytery of Glasgow (p248); letter on the number of houses with and without water closets (p395); and letter on proposed Government housing design (p487). Indexed at front by correspondent. Given the volume's numbering this must have been part of a much larger series which has not survived.
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