[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow.

  • Glasgow (Scotland)
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Linings Granted by Bean of Guild Court.—A summary of the linings granted by the Dean of Guild Court is given in Table III of the Appendix, together with similar information for the preceding ten years. Linings were granted in 1925 for 1,394 houses. 504 of these were for houses of two-apartments, mostly to replace houses in slum clearance schemes, while 674 were for three-apartment houses, the latter figure alone being almost 50 per cent, of the total. There were only 111 linings granted for houses of four- apartments, and 105 for houses of larger size. TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL. The weather conditions during 1925 may be described generally as good. There were considerable periods of bright weather, with sunshine, during early spring, summer, and late autumn. Particulars of monthly variations of temperature and rainfall are shown in Appendix Table IV, which contains an abstract of the meteorological observations taken at Springburn Park. A comparison of the totals for the ten years 1916-25, is also given. Although the maximum temperature, 83 degrees, which occurred in June, was not exceeded during any of the ten years included, the lowest of 18 degrees is not extreme. The average for the year was comparatively low at 46'7 degrees. There were 222 days on which rain fell and the amount recorded, 38‘22 inches, is only slightly below the average. BLIND PERSONS. In the Report for 1921, on pages 14-25, there were included considerable extracts from a memorandum on an investigation regarding blind persons in Glasgow. The information then dealt with was based on an inquiry made by the Inspectors as to the housing and economic conditions, &c., of the blind persons known to be resident in the City. In order, however, to obtain a proper medical survey of the blind population in their area the Joint- Committee for the South-West of Scotland for the-Administration of the Blind Persons Act authorised the appointment of an Eye Specialist to carrv out a routine examination of all blind persons.