Glasgow. 
Town hos- 
pital. 
Lunatic 
asylum. 
Magdalene 
asylum. 
Lock hospi- 
tal. 
Libraries 
and news- 
papers. 
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distinct diseases, with which the patients were afflicted, 
there were’ 154 eases of fever, and’ 52 operations per- 
formed ; 758 patients were cured, 100 relieved, 102: 
died, 132 remained in the hospital, and the remainder 
were either convalescent, improper; or incurable. Since 
the opening of the infirmary in 1794, there have been. 
admitted 15,036 patients; of which number 10,325 
have been cured, and a considerable number of the re- 
mainder relieved. During’the above period, advice has 
been given at the infirmary to nearly 40,000 out pa- 
tients. The subscriptions for 1814 amounted to £1901. 
11s. 5d. ; contributions, £152: 11:6; legacies, £522, 
6s. 9d: ; and the fees from medical students for leave 
to attend the hospital, £597: 15: 1. we 
This institution is supported by fixed ‘contributions 
from the town council, merchants, and trades houses, 
and general session ; but chiefly from an assessment on 
the inhabitants, laid on by 15 persons not connected 
with the town council. e mode is, to assess every 
person, in proportion to his property and business, with- 
in the burgh, who is supposed to be worth £300. In 
1814, there were 484 persons in the hospital ; 795 out 
pensioners, who received nursery wages for their 
children ; 738 out pensioners, who received meal from 
the hospital; making a total of 2017 on the funds. 
The average cost of each person in the hospital, in 1814, 
is £9: 15s. per annum ; the quantity of meal used in 
1814, is 2302 bolls. The rate of assessment on every 
£100 of supposed property in the burgh, 3s. 6d.; va- 
luation, £5,830,700 ; amount of assessment, £10,273. 
This institution was opened on the 12th December, 
1814, when 23 male and 18 female patients were ad- 
mitted, Since the opening, a period of only 11 months, 
112 patients have been admitted ; of whom 24 have 
been cured, six relieved, one died, six discharged being 
idiots, and 75 remained in the asylum.’ The rates for 
the support of paupers belonging to Glasgow, or those 
parishes. who have contributed £50 for every 1500 
persons in the parish, is 8s.; and for those who have 
no claim, 10s. 6d. week. The rates for boarders 
are from 13s. upwards. Although there are at present 
no boarders in the asylum whose rates are higher than 
‘31s. 6d. per week, every suitable accommodation is 
provided for the higher ranks. 
As a few months have only passed since this institu- 
tion was opened; no distinct statement of its affairs can 
be given. There are at present 14 penitents in the 
asylum, whose conduct gives the managers the hap- 
piest presage of future usefulness. 
The affairs of this asylum, for the reception and cure 
of unfortunate females, are, by its charter, placed un- 
der the management of one member from the town 
council ; one from the merchants and trades houses ; 
one from the clergymen ; two from the faculty of phy- 
sicians and surgeons ; and eight from the court of con- 
tributors. From 31st. December, 1813, to 31st Decem- 
ber, 1814, there were 128 patients admitted, whereof 
118 were cured, one died, and nine remained in the 
hospital. The expenditure of 1814 was £447: 14:13. 
Although no proper patient was refused admittance, 
the number has this year happily diminished nearly in 
the proportion of one-third fom former years. 
A though it will not be expected that, inv a manu- 
facturing and commercial town like Glasgow, there 
would be libraries on a very extensive scale, there are 
nevertheless to be found in the collection of\the college, 
the Hunterian museum, the faculties of physicians, and 
surgeons, and procurators, books of the utmost value 
and consideration, in every branch of literature. “The 
books in the public subscription and circulating libra- 
GLASGOW. 
ries are ona scale suited to the extent of the place. In Gla 
1810, the following newspapers were published here: — 
the Courier, Herald, Journal, Chronicle, Western. Star, 
Clyde Commercial List, and Centinel., The two last,; 
which were weekly papers, are now discontinued, 
Prior to 1806, the citizens had no other 
ter than from 28 pump-wells im the streets. . As some of ©"? 
these were No breve and the water often of a bad. 
quality, a number of the inhabitants; in 1806, procured 
an act of Parliament i porating them into a com- 
pany for supplying the city and suburbs with water, 
under the name ry G Water Works Com. 
y- Accordingly, this corporate body purchased lands Glasg° 
 aiilieatiae on the banks of the Clyde, about three 
miles above the city, where they erected steam-engines, 
filtering pits, and reservoirs, &e. and now send river. 
water, in a pure state, in iron pipes, through the streets: 
and lanes of the city and subutee, Gmthe accommoda-— 
tion of all those who choose to purchase it. The exs 
iture of the company up to April 1815 is £81,194, 
9s. 7d. The produce of water rents for one year, end- 
ing at same period, is £5971:8:7, which is raised in 
advance from the following rates, viz.—persons occu 
pying a dwelling-house rented under £4, pay 53. 
perannum ; £4, and under £6, 6s: per annum ; £6, 
and under £8, 7s. 6d. per annum; £8 and upwards 
five per cent. per annum. Bakers pay 5s. per annum 
for each man or boy employed in the bakehouse. The ~ 
keepers of horses and cows, 4s. for each. Counting- 
houses, shops, and warehouses; LP debra 5s. to 10s. 3. 
and public works according to the quantity of water 
used. The cast iron pipes, ing to the company, 
laid in the streets and lanes within the royalty, exclu- 
sive of the main from Dalmarnock, and’ pipes in the 
suburbs of Gorbals, Calton, Bridgetown, &c. amount to 
seventeen miles, four furlongs, and three poles. 
In 1808, a number of persons, connected with 
phon obtained an 6 of aan i oe 
them into a com or supplying city ; 
gow and its saburbe With water, under the name of the 
Cranston Hill Water Company. Accordingly, they 
purchased lands at Cranston Hill, and on the banks of 
the river, about a mile below the city, and erected 
steam-engines, filtering beds, reservoirs, &c. and now 
send fiver water, in a pure state, in iron Pipes; through 
a number of the streets and lanes of the city and 
suburbs. The expenditure of the company is £52,000, 
The water rates are nearly the same as mes ’ 
com . The cast-iron pipes belonging to this coms 
pity. Yaad in the streets La lenceria the royalty, 
exclusive of the main fromCranston Hill, and the pipes 
in the suburbs of Anderston, Gorbals, Calton, ; 
Bridgetown, &c. amount to nine.miles, semen cK 
and eleven poles. The total length of pipes within 
royalty, belonging to both companies; is 27 miles, and 
fourteen poles. 4 
The affairs of the river Clyde are placed, by act of Clyde? 
parliament, under the management of the magistrates “'8' 
and council. The revenue arising from’ ) cra-! 
nage, and harbour dues, col cat the Broomielaw,) 
amounted, in 1814, to £5,920, 2s. 8d. Those dues are 
kept distinct from the corporation’s funds, and are laid 
out in deepening and improvi a river and harbour, 
and in discharging the debt of the trust. aah 
Prior to. 1800, the police ofthe city was under the: Pol: 
sole management of thes magistrates and council, and > 
supported from the corporation funds. In 1800, anact 
of perlioment was obtained, vesting the management in 
the lord provost, magistrates, dean d, convener; 
and 24 commissioners, to be chosen by the inhabitants. 
of wa-|Wate 
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