Housing of Scottish miners : report on the housing of miners in Stirlingshire and Dunbartonshire / John C. M'Vail.

  • McVail, John C. (John Christie), 1849-1926.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Housing of Scottish miners : report on the housing of miners in Stirlingshire and Dunbartonshire / John C. M'Vail. 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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    Western. In the Western District there is hardly any mining, only one colliery (a new one) being situated at its south-eastern end. In the Central District coal has long been worked along its southern border in the parishes of Kilsyth and Denny, and during the last few years mining has developed largely in the eastern part of the parish of St. Ninians—the Carse of Stirling, south of the river Forth and south-east of the county town. In the Eastern District the upper seams have been nearly exhausted in the important coal-field of Slamannan in the extreme south, and the mining population is rapidly diminishing there; but further north, in Falkirk and Grangemouth parishes, coal winning is an important industry, and one or two large new mines have lately been opened. In Dunbartonshire the industry is almost entirely confined to the detached part of the county, consisting of the parishes of Kirkintilloch and Cumbernauld. The following table shows the growth of coal mining since 1861 : Persons Employed. County. 1861. 1871. 1881. 1891. 1901. 1907. 1908. Stirling, 2,737 3,821 3,492 5,317 7,814 9,933 10,350 Dunbarton, 504 675 627 1,320 1,760 1,917 1,973 Total, 3,241 4,496 4,119 6,637 9,574 11,850 12,323 The figures for 1907 and 1908 are taken from the Reports of H.M. Inspectors of Mines, and the rest from the Decennial Census Reports. The former reports include the particulars for 1908, as shown on page 8. [For 1910 the figures are: Stirling- shire 10,600, Dunbartonshire 2,236—total, 12,836.] The number of male employees over 16 years of age was, in 1908, below ground 9,163, and above ground 2,171, or a total of 11,334. Though the following tables have no special relation to housing I insert them as possibly of interest with regard to age and sex. They also show the diminution which has taken place in the number of persons engaged in other kinds of mining in the two counties.