Glasgow Medical Officer of Health Reports 1913-1922
- Reference:GB 243 D-HE1/1/21
- Dates of Creation:1913 - 1922
- Language of Material:English
- Physical Description:1 volume Volume
Scope and Content
Bound volume of reports for 1913, 1914-1919 (for loose copies see D/HE/1/1/22-23), 1920, 1921 and 1922. Reports by A K Chalmers. 1913 sections on summary of vital statistics of year; population; unoccupied houses; linings granted by Dean of Guild; acreage; temperature and rainfall; marriages; births; deaths; infantile mortality; treatment of venereal disease; infectious diseases; smallpox; diphtheria and membranous croup; enteric fever; cerebro-spinal fever; typhus fever; scarlet fever; measles; whooping cough; diarrhoeal diseases; tuberculous diseases; respiratory diseases; pneumonia; puerperal fever; erysipelas; certification of deaths; rabies; anthrax; glanders; Bacteriological Laboratory; hospitals and reception houses; removals by public conveyance of bodies of persons dead of infectious disease; interments in closed intra-mural burying grounds; Fresh-Air Fortnight Scheme; Port Local Authority; Glasgow Police Amendment Act 1890; Housing of the Working Classes Acts; Housing Town Planning etc Act 1909; certification of lodging houses for exemption from inhabited house duty; farmed-out houses; houses let in lodgings; offensive trades; Factory and Workshop Act 1901; and registration of hairdressers. 1914-1922 (with slight variations) sections on population; vital statistics on births, marriages and deaths; maternity and child welfare; infectious disease; tuberculosis; venereal disease; hospitals and wash houses; offensive trades; Port Local Authority; housing; Bacteriological Laboratory; and general sanitation, air purification and operations under Sale of Food and Drugs Act. The 1920 report has a chart of the distribution and co-ordination of Public Health Department staff. The 1921 report has photographs of Robroyston Hospital, Cowcaddens Day Nursery, Scotstoun Country Home, Mount Blow Country Home - interior and exterior, lay-out plans of Robroyston Hospital, floor plans and elevations of Knightswood Hospital and lay-out plan of Southfield Sanatorium.
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Volume is stamped 'Presented by Russell Sage Foundation' - the American foundation for research in social sciences. Lining was the permission granted by a Dean of Guild to erect or alter a building according to specified conditions.
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