Burgh of Partick Committee Papers
- Reference:GB 243 H-PAR1/21/13
- Dates of Creation:1888
- Language of Material:English
- Physical Description:4 bundles Manuscript
Scope and Content
The bundles include:
- Firemaster's reports on fires giving details of the location, proprietor, damage done and cost
- report by Superintendent of Police including costs of escorting prisoners, fines, damage to public lamps, dogs seized and accounts
- report by Superintendent of Fire Brigade on the need for an extra suction pipe and new fire plugs
- reports by the Sanitary Inspector including common lodging houses, investigation of nuisances, removals to hospital, inspection of dairies and interments with cause of death; special report on drains; nuisance at railway siding, Crow Road
- reports on fire at slaughter house and at police buildings
- reports by Clerk on Burgh Police and Health (Scotland) Bill 1888 - report on stairs and stair railings
- report by Medical Officer of Health on births marriages and deaths and causes of death
- jobbing reports on work done
- circulars on bakehouses and bovine tuberculosis
- reports on outbreak of typhus and case of enteric fever
- testimonials for Alexander Lamb, Assistant Sanitary Inspector
- papers relating to Victoria Park including a plan of a temporary roof for the Fossil Grove, programme for the anniversary of the opening and bye-laws 1886-1888
- public notice on vaccination for smallpox and report by the Medical Officer of Health
- regulations for the use and management of police cells
- correspondence relating to boys in the Stranraer Reformatory
- notes on the Burgh Police and Health Bill
- list of official and salaries
- correspondence on land for the proposed Baths
- correspondence on feuing land to the south of Victoria Park and lay-out of the park itself with plans 1887-88
- report on the strength of the fire brigade
- change in law on the recover of penalties in this instance for the selling of unwholesome meat
- statement by the Burgh of Pollokshields regarding the public hall proposed to be erected
- claim by Mr Colquhoun for injuries received falling into a hole at Partick Cross
- return of expenditure under the Public Works Loan Act for smallpox hospital
- table of the number of one room houses and shops with one room attached in the burgh by street and the number of private lamps in common passages
- papers relating to educational endowments including report on ecclesiastical endowments 1884, Glasgow City Educational Endowments Board scheme 1885 and Glasgow Educational Endowments bursary competition 1887 and 1888
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