The evolution of the function of public health administration : as illustrated by the sanitary history of Glasgow in the nineteenth century, and especially since 1854, with an exposition of results / by James B. Russell.

  • Russell, James Burn, 1837-1904.
Date:
1895
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Credit: The evolution of the function of public health administration : as illustrated by the sanitary history of Glasgow in the nineteenth century, and especially since 1854, with an exposition of results / by James B. Russell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    16 the Bills of Mortality in 1821 was as prefixed to the followino- Table :— 1800-1854. Population. 1801, 1811, 1821, 83,805 110,460 147,043 1800. 1806. 1807. 1808. 1821. 1830. 1832. ]837. 1838. 1843. 1846. SANITATION. First Police Act.^ The Glasgow Waterworks Company constituted. Works, Dalmarnock. Clyde Water. Second Police Act. The Cranstonhill Waterworks Company constituted. Clyde Water. Third Police Act. Fourth do. The Cholera Acts. Fifth Police Act. Amalgamation of the two Water Companies. Sixth Police Act. Seventh Police and Extension Act. Nuisance Removal (Scot- land) Act. 1848. Gravitation Water introduced to Gorbals by Private Company (February). 1854, Scotch Registration Act. 1831, 1841, 1851, 202,426 280,602 347,001 HEALTH. 1818. Typhus Epidemic. 1832. Do. First Cholera Epidemic— 2842 deaths, or 14 per 1000. Death-rate, 46. 1837. Typhus Epidemic — 2180 deaths. Death-rate, 41. 1S43. Relapsing Fever Epidemic— 1398 deaths. Death-rate, 32. 1847. Typhus Epidemic — 4346 deaths. Death-rate, 56. ] 848-9. Second Cholera Epidemic— 3772 deaths in 1849, or 11 per 1000. Death-rate, 35. 1851-2. Typhus Epidemic. 1853-4. Third Cholera Epidemic— 3885 deaths in 1854, or 12 per 1000. Death-rate, 42. Prior to 1855, the register of burials kept hy the wardens oi; church-yards was the only source of information as to the number of deaths or their causes. Mortality Bills made up from these sources were systematically ^ Local Acts arc printed in Italics ; Imperiiil in Small Capitals.