Annual Reports of Medical Officer of Health Glasgow 1902-1904
- Reference:GB 243 D-HE1/1/6/2
- Dates of Creation:1902 - 1906
- Language of Material:English
- Physical Description:1 volume Volume
Scope and Content
Annual reports 1902, 1903 and 1904. Content includes sections on: general account of sanitary condition of city; conservancy methods in relation to insanitary conditions - street and court washing; population; marriages; births; comparative movement in marriage, birth and death rates 1870-1902; deaths by disease; uncertified deaths; deaths in friendly societies; meteorology; Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Order 1899; rabies; anthrax; Bacteriological Department; Hospitals and reception houses; uninhabitable houses; Dean of Guild Court Linings 1901-1902; offensive trades; Factory and Workshop Act; bakehouses; summary of birth and death rates during 1903; infantile mortality; infectious diseases; principal zymotic diseases; smallpox - history of outbreak; diphtheria; enteric fever; typhus fever; scarlet fever; measles; whooping cough; diarrhoeal diseases; tuberculous diseases; diseases of organs of respiration; puerperal fever; erysipelas; glanders; removal by public conveyance of bodies of persons dead of infectious disease; Fresh-Air Fortnight Scheme; Port Local Authority; summary of statistical features of year; food enquiry; infants' milk depot; Glasgow Day Nurseries; smallpox - report of 1903-4 outbreak; interments in closed burying grounds; housing accommodation of the labouring classes and proceedings under the Housing of the Working Classes Act; farmed-out houses; and houses let in lodgings.
1903 report includes fold-out map of the old sanitary districts with the wards superimposed.
Annotated and with inserted pages not included in the loose reports: notes on the impact of the closure of Leicester Fever Hospital on scarlet fever cases (p70); typed notes on houses closed and rendered legal by removal of back lands 1902-1903 under Glasgow Police Amendment Act 189 (p104); and rough notes on Gallowgate backlands (p122). Envelope attached to rear cover containing a list of tenements represented 1904-1905 for which proceedings were still pending.
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