Burgh of Partick Committee Papers
- Reference:GB 243 H-PAR1/21/37
- Dates of Creation:1901
- Language of Material:English
- Physical Description:7 bundles Manuscript
Scope and Content
First bundle includes:
- jobbing reports [on work done]
- fire reports
- report on broken lamps
- reports by Chief Constable
- notices of resignation and dismissal of police officers
- tramway bye-laws
- report of accident on Douglas Street
- papers relating to Prisons (Scotland) Act and funding of reformatories and industrial schools
- bye-laws for the cleansing of common stairs and carpet beating with correspondence and examples from other burghs
- bye-laws for stage carriages and hackney carriages
- contracts and correspondence on street maintenance and widening including a list of principal Glasgow streets and their widths
- correspondence on paving of courts
Second bundle includes:
- drainage operations on Crow Road
- statement and correspondence on assessment arrears
- printed return of payments into and out of local taxation account
- correspondence on land at Merklands due to new foreign animal wharf
- letter from Burgh Surveyor on national telephone rental
- accounts paid by proprietors for laying granolithic footpaths
- petition to remove reception house
- public notices on elections
- report of Sanitary Inspector for 1901
- circulars from Board of Agriculture on swine fever, sale of milk etc
- claim for damages due to disinfection of patient's belongings
- attendance at school of neglected children
- forms for smallpox vaccination
- memorandum from Local Government Board on the plague
Third bundle includes:
- excerpts from minutes relating to collection of arrears
- statement of land valuation
- Partick's contribution to cost of roads
- memorandum on the Burgh Police and Public Health Bill
- correspondence relating to valuation
- programme for a conference on cheap dwellings in Glasgow City Chambers
- papers relating to the Burgh Hall
Fourth bundle:
- petition for a park in the east of the Burgh
Fifth bundle includes:
- contribution to police pay and clothing
- recurring contracts for work in the Burgh
- memorandum from the Local Government Board with respect to plague
- report by the sub-committee on the appointment of the Medical Officer of Health
Sixth bundle includes:
- objections to a building on Byres Road with plan
- correspondence on the West of Scotland Football Club stand
- letter from the Medical Officer of Health on the removal of smallpox cases from the Reception House and additional correspondence
- water closets in Wilson Street
- letter conveying fines paid by Partick prisoners to Glasgow Prison
- return of business in Dean of Guild Court
Seventh bundle includes:
- papers relating to opposition to formation of Broomhill Lane with plan showing proprietors
- Glasgow's traffic bye-laws
- discussion of the Town Councils (Scotland) Act
- Ice Cream Shops (Scotland) Bill amended for billiard rooms
- papers relating to proposed Port Local Authority for Glasgow
- letter and block plan re Apsley Street
- report on smallpox outbreak in Glasgow
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