Report by the deputation appointed by the Town Council and Board of Police of Glasgow to inquire into the methods of disposing of sewage adopted in various towns in England.
- Glasgow (Scotland). Town Council
- Date:
- 1878
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report by the deputation appointed by the Town Council and Board of Police of Glasgow to inquire into the methods of disposing of sewage adopted in various towns in England. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![Glasgow con- tion of about 6 gallons as compared with the previous yeai-. It is estimated that 14 gallons are used in manufactures and for general ' trade purposes, leaving for the actual domestic consumpt 32^ ^ gallons per head. Mr. Gale estimates that by further improve- J ments in the distributing plant and house fittmgs the figure may ultimately be reduced to 20 or 25 gallons. The population sup- , plied by the Glasgow Water-works has doubled since 1833, and if | a similar rate of increase continues, we shall require 55 to 60 ] million gallons per day by the end of the century. 1 nrainnge Area According to Sir John Hawkshaw, the area draining into the of the Clyde. . Clyde above Gourock is 1481 square miles. The tidal portion of the river receives four principal tributaries—the Leven, Black ] Cart, Wlute Cart, and Kelvin. The area drained by these j tributaries is 632 square miles, and the population of the towns and villages situated upon them was, in 1871, 128,000. The j population of Glasgow, including the suburbs of Partick, Hillhead, 1 Springburn, Govan, Kinning Park, Crossbill, Pollokshields, Strath- j bungo. Mount Florida, Crossmyloof, Shawlands, and Ruthei'glen, | was, in 1871, 569,000. The population of the towns and villages | on the Clyde below Glasgow, mcluding Renfrew, Duntocher and | Faifly, Old Kilpatrick, Helensburgh, Port-Glasgow, Greenock, and | Gourock, was, at the same date, 87,600; and on the Clyde above ] Glasgow, including Lanark, Hamilton, &c., 34,400. The tributaries 1 above Glasgow are the Rotten Calder, North Calder, South Calder, 1 Cadzow, Douglas, Nethan, and Elvan 3 and tliese have towns andj villages upon them having an aggregate population of 90,000. The! total population in 1871 was 909,000, and it may now be safely! assumed to be, in round numbere, 1,000,000. I note.—Since the above was in type, Mr. Gale, engineer toj the Glasgow Corporation Water-works, has issued, his fourth! quarterly Report for 1877, in which he makes the following! remarks;— 1 “As an evidence of the extent to which all modern conveniences! are being introduced into dwelling-houses, I may mention that,! durmg the past year, 7486 water-closets and 393 urmals have! been put up in new houses. In 1864 an enumeration of th^ water-closets within the area of supply was made, when thel number was found to be 28,054. Since that tune the increase has been very great, and the number of these appliances musy now approach 100,000.” I It will be observed that these statements refer, not to thy Municipality of Glasgow, but to the whole area of water supply J the estimated population of wliich, in April, 1877, according ty the books of the Water Trust, was 730,000. The statistics sho-sy very clearly hoAv much the suWrban population is adding, year year, to the pollution of the river. • #1](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22412165_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
