GLASGOW IN 1877.
The Chamberlain for the City -of Glasgow has just issued his a Jnual report on the vital, social, and economic statistics for'lß77. From this, it appears that the number of births recorded during the year amounted to 21,092. and .the deaths to 13,823, showing a. difference of 7269, *which may be regarded as the natural increase of the population, and is the highest on record. The deaths, when applied to an estimated population' of of 556,090, yield the simple average result of 2:486 per cent., or 24-86 per ICOO. The marriages recorded for 1877 numbered 4943, as against 4968 in 1876. In the second part of his report, the City Chamberlain presents a series of tables connected with population, &c. He thus shows that the unitedpopulation of the municipal city in. the middle of the year 1877 was 550.CC0, and he estimates that the city, including its connected suburban districts, represents a united population of fully 720,000. -The • total municipal constituency for 1877-78 j was 63,124, the Parliamentary constituency 60,582, and the School JBoard constituency. 112,897. The gross rental of the municipal city in 1877 was £3,317,862. The quantity of gas manufactured by the Corporation in 1877 amounted to •1,817,163,000 cubic feet; and as to water, also supplied by the Corporation, there was distributed in and around the city during the year a daily average of 33,700,000 gallons, equivalent to about 45f gallons per head of the population within the district served. During the year 220 vessels, with a tonnage of 169,383, were launched on the Clyde. The value of these vessels amounts, at a moderate calculation, to three millions sterling, and this is irrespective of the largo sum which must have been expended on repairs. The Cnstoms.duties collected at Glasgow during the year amounted to £1,016,112 Is 9,d, arid at Greenock to £54,109 6s 3d, giving a total collected on the Clyde of £1,070,221 Bs. During the year 1005 emigrants sailed from the
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2992, 17 September 1878, Page 2
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327GLASGOW IN 1877. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2992, 17 September 1878, Page 2
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