[Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow.

  • Glasgow (Scotland)
Date:
1910
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Credit: [Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Within this boundary, which fairly corresponds with that of the city as constituted prior to the extension of 1891, the number of inhabited houses has undergone a continuous and progressive decrease since 1903—a decrease which, in the seven years which have elapsed, now amounts to 6,767 houses. This depopulation of the central portion of a growing city has its parallel in the experience of cities elsewhere; but in the present year there is for the first time an indication that the outward movement of population is affecting a wider zone. From the extension of the city in 1891, the number of houses inhabited in the area beyond the Parliamentary boundary showed annual increases which were sometimes considerable, and suggested that the outflow from the older area was being arrested in the nearer suburbs. In 1907 a shrinkage in the volume of this suburban increase declared itself, and became more marked in the two years which followed. In the present year, however, a decrease has occurred, the number of inhabited houses in the area of the city beyond the Parliamentary boundary being 91 fewer than last year. The changes here indicated may be followed in more detail in the following table, which, for purposes of strict comparison, excludes the houses in Finning Park: — GLASGOW.—Inhabited Houses WITHIN and BEYOND Parliamentary Burgh in Several Years (excluding Kinning Park). Year. Within. Beyond. No. Difference. No. Difference. + - + - 1897, 125,475 23.482 1898, 127,276 1,8*01 24,897 1,415 1899, 129,071 1,795 26,425 1,528 1900, 129,647 576 27,732 1,307 1901, 130,962 1,315 29,026 1,294 1902, 131,339 377 29,908 882 1903, 131,433 94 31,010 1,102 1904, 130,626 807 32,376 1,366 1905, 129,209 1,417 33,679 1.303 1906 128,608 601 34,900 1,221 ... 1907, 128,344 264 35,790 890 1908, 126,521 1,823 36,510 720 ... 1909, 125,368 1,153 37,176 666 1910, 124,666 702 37,085 91 (Bj Estimate of Population based on Inhabited Houses. Estimating the population inhabiting these houses by the usual method, and adding thereto 22,726 persons ascertained by special census to be resident in institutions, and 1,241 persons resident on shipping in the harbour, the total population of Glasgow at midsummer, 1910, may be stated as 796,409, which is 4,001 less than last year’s estimate, and lower than that of the Registrar- General by 88,000. For several years prior to 1907, a gradual shrinking of the rate of increase of the population was recorded, but an actual decrease began in 1908, so that the population as now estimated is 10,392 below the estimate for 1907. As formerly observed, this reduction in numbers does not represent the total loss to population during these years; there has to be added the loss of natural increase, i.e., the excess of births over deaths. During the past three years this amounted to 26,338, so that the actual loss to the population from these two sources alone during the three years may be stated as 36,730.