The Corporation of the City of Glasgow (Police Department) - Reports of the Various Departments

• Reference:GB 243 E2/1/2/3
• Dates of Creation:1898 - 1899
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  1 volume
  Volume

• Scope and Content

  I - City of Glasgow Police Criminal Returns for the Year Ending 31 December 1898. Includes figures for numbers taken into custody for what crimes and how they were disposed of by the magistrates with divisions by sex, place of birth, age, education etc; number of visits and inspections made by Police to piggeries, stables, hackney cabs etc; inspection of meat; number of fatal and non-fatal accidents; reports made to other Corporation Departments such as Water, Gas etc of problems; wages and length of service of Police; number of vagrants; etc.

  II - Annual reports of sickness in the Police Force, Fire Brigade and Lighting Department 1899

  III - Report of the Glasgow Fire Brigade for the year ending December 1898 with description of premises in which fires occurred and supposed causes; way in which alarm given, source of water, how fire extinguished etc; numerical strength of brigade and quantities of equipment.

  IV - Fourth Annual Report on Work Done in Connection with Master of Works Department for the year ending 31 May 1899 with sections on paving; street improvements; sewer work; number of workmen employed; public weighing machines; public conveniences; drinking fountains and water troughs; bridges; claims for damages; and statement of approvals made by the Dean of Guild.

  V - Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health 1898 with sections on population; marriages; births; deaths by disease; uninhabitable houses; offensive trades; reception houses; rabies.

  VI - Twenty-Ninth Annual Report on the Operations of the Sanitary Department of the City of Glasgow for the year ending 31 December 1898 with table by district of nuisances, lodging houses, night inspections for overcrowding, female visitations, drain testing, infectious diseases, vaccinations, bakehouses, factories and workshops, byres dairies and milk shops, adulteration of food, dead meat inspection, limewashing, reception houses, interments and infringments under the Shop Acts; work done by nuisance inspector by sub-division; the work of the wash-houses at Belvidere and Ruchill; and return of open spaces children's playgrounds.

  VII - Report of the City of Glasgow Fever and Smallpox Hospitals for the year ending 31 May 1898 with sections on admissions; monthly distribution of principal diseases; number of diseases treated in each hospital with figures for scarlet fever, diphtheria, enteric fever, typhus fever, measles, whooping-cough, erysipelas and smallpox.

  VIII - Report by the General Manager of the Sewage Works 1898-9

  IX - Labour Bureau Annual Report with figures for Glasgow compared to other British bureaux.

  X - Report on the housing of milch [milk] cows

  XI - Report by Chief Constable as to cost of officering the Police Force compared to other British cities

  XII - Abstract Statements of Revenue and Expenditure and Balance Accounts of the Corporation of Glasgow Police Department 1898-99

  In a volume bound for the Police Clerk.

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  Front cover detached

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• Subjects

  Smallpox