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

• Reference:GB 243 E2/1/2/4
• Dates of Creation:1899 - 1900
• 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 1899. 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 1900

  III - Report of the Glasgow Fire Brigade for the year ending December 1899 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 - Fifth Annual Report on Work Done in Connection with Master of Works Department for the year ending 31 May 1900 with sections on paving; street improvements; sewer work; number of workmen employed; public weighing machines; public conveniences; drinking fountains and water troughs; bridges; open spaces; claims for damages; and statement of approvals made by the Dean of Guild.

  V - Report by the Chief Inspector of Weights and Measures for year ending 31 May 1900 with number of business inspected; statement of income and expenditure; and number of staff.

  VI - Thirtieth Annual Report on the Operations of the Sanitary Department of the City of Glasgow for the year ending 31 December 1899 with table by district of nuisances, lodging houses, night inspections for overcrowding, female visitations, drain testing, infectious diseases, vaccinations, bakehouses, factories and workshops, smoke prevention, 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; return of open spaces children's playgrounds; and return of byres.

  VII - Report of the City of Glasgow Fever and Smallpox Hospitals for the year ending 31 May 1900 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 - Annual Report of the Veterinary Surgeon for 1900 with inspection of meat; inspection of milch cows; and returns of animals slaughtered in the abbatoirs.

  IX - Baths and Wash-houses - First Annual Report 1900 with list of facilities; numbers of bathers; and rates of charges.

  X - Report by the General Manager of the Sewage Works 1899-1900

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

  XII - Glasgow Main Drainage - Bacterial Treatment of Sewage

  In a volume bound for Councillor Burrell.

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• Subjects

  Smallpox