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GENERAL STATISTICS OF GLASGOW AND SUBURBS.
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THE CUT OF GLASGOW.
The City Chamberlain estimated the population
•of the City and Suburbs, at Midsummer of 1873, as
•follows : — Total population situated within the par-
liamentary boundary, 499,000.
On account of the operation of the "Glasgow
Municipal Act, 1872," which took inception on 15th
of May, 1873, the population of the Municipal is
not now identical with that of the Parliamentary
City, for the extended limits apply to the former
only. In order to ascertain the population of the
Municipal City with, its extended area, as at Mid-
summer of 1873, we must add to the above-named
499,000 the population of the newly-annexed dis-
tricts, regarding which the Chamberlain writes as
follows in his last report, published at Midsummer
of 1873:—
"To this amount we must add the population
existing in that part of the ancient Royalty, already
alluded to, which lies on the north of the Forth and
Clyde Canal, but now forms part of the Municipal
•City of Glasgow; and, farther, we must add the
* island ' district ; and the University, as well as two
small areas, one of which lying around Keppoch
Hill, and formerly belonging to the County, made a
sort of inconvenient indent into the northern point of
the Ancient Royalty ; and the other, a small portion
of the West-end Park, on the west of the Kelvin,
lying between the City and the University. Both
areas are included in the Municipal City by the
extension Act, 1872, solely with the view of straight-
ening the boundary lines. These portions of the
population, however, ean only be estimated according
io the ascertained number of dwellings, thus : —
" Part of Springburn Parish, — dwellings, 1809 X
5 = 9055.
"Part of Maryhill Parish, — dwellings, 1315 X 5
= 6575.
" Part of Barony Parish (already alluded to as the
'island' — dwellings, 293; the University (in Govan
Parish)— dwellings, 17, total, 310 X 5 = 1550.
" So that the Municipal City of Glasgow contained
at Midsummer of 1873 a population of 516,170.
" At the same time, account must be taken of that
large extent of population lying contiguous to the
central mass, and divided from it by little else than
an imaginary although sufficiently ascertained boun-
dary. I allude to the suburbs, which are, although
not in, yet really of the City ; for how large a pro-
portion of our population is there, which while
labouring at its multitudinous industries within the
City boundaries during the day, yet has its home
uinside. We may therefore estimate the population
of the City and its adjuncts thus —
1.— City.
"Total population within tli^ Municipal boundary
of the City, now including that of the outlying portion
of the ancient Royalty, &c, 516,170.
2.— Suburbs.
"Population of lM-tiuk and Hillhead, 5419 X 5
= 27,095.
" Population of Pollokshields, Govan, and Paisley
road, &c, 8538 X 5 = 42,690.
" Population of Strathbungo, Crossmyloof, Lang-
side, and Crossbill, 1980 X 5 = 9900.
" Population of Shettleston, and outlying portions
of Maryhill and Springburn as in 1871, 19,009; add
for two years' increase, say, 991 = 20,000.
" Thus the City of Glasgow, including its connected
and closely contiguous suburbs, represented at Mid-
summer of 1873 a population of somewhere about
615,885." And these figures may now, March, 1875,
have advanced to a sum total of possibly 640,000.
The population of the City proper — that is, of the
space contained within the Parliamentary and Muni-
cipal boundary — was, at the census of 1871,477,710.
Curiously enough, the Registrar-General of England
had estimated the numbers as 475,270; the Registrar-
General of Scotland as 461,900 ; and tbe City
Chamberlain as 470,500 ; each adopting his own
mode of calculation, and yet each approaching so
near to the reality.
NATURAL
INCREASE
OP THE POPULATION,
1861-
-1874.
Year.
Births.
Deaths.
Nat. In
1861
16,536
10,932
5,604
1862
16,397
11,569
4,828
1863
16,988
13,327
3,661
1864
17,434
13,674
3,760
1865
17,928
13,912
4,016
1866
18,287
12,826
5,461
1867
18,356
12,578
5,778
1868
18,609
13,825
4,784
1869
18,490
15,640
2,850
1870
19,359
13,952
5,407
1871
18,856
15,785
3,071
1872
20,144
14,047
6,097
1873
19,493
14,494
4,999
1874
20,038
15,841
4,197
Total of 14 years, 256,915 births, 192,402 death?,
64,513 natural increase. Average of 14 years,
18,351 births, 13,743 deaths, 4,608 natural increase.
Parliamentary representatives — Charles Cameron,
LL.D., George Anderson, and Alex. Whitelaw.
Parliamentary constituency, 56,727; Municipal
constituency, 58,594 ; School Board constituency,
101,871.
HILLHEAD.
Burgh of Hillhead, created 14th May, 1869. Popu-
lation in 1871, 3718. Assessable rental, .£50,0(M.
Branch Post and Telegraph Offices, Post Office
Savings Bank, and Gun and Dog Licences, at Post
Office, 61 Great Western road.
For list of names, see Suburban Directory.
GOVAN.
Population of Police Burgh in 1872, about 30,000.
Parliamentary constituency of the burgh of Govan,
1117 ; burgh of Partick, 830 ; burgh of Hillhead,
541 ; South Side Park and Paisley Boad districts,
492 ; Dowanhill and Great Western Road districts,
169 ; total, 3149.
MAEYHILL.
Population in 1871, 2836 males, 2997 females ;
total, 5833. Municipal constituency, 736.
Post Office. — Postmaster, John Lockhart. Ar-
rivals, 4 and 9.25 a.m. ; 5.5 p.m. Despatches,
8.25 and 11.45 a.m. ; 4.30 and 7 p.m.
For list of names see Suburban Directory.