[Report 1932] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow.

  • Glasgow (Scotland)
Date:
1932
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Credit: [Report 1932] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The estimated population of the city as at June, 1932, is 1,095,263, based on the return of inhabited houses supplied by the City Assessor. Compared with the census population of the previous year, 1,088,461, there is thus an indicated increase of 6,802 persons. This increase is 141 more than the excess of births over deaths in 1932, namely, 6,661 persons. Although an extension of the boundary added a small area and a small population to the city (63 at the last census), the progressive reductions in the population shown in Table XXIV in the Appendix were the results of' adjustments made last year in view of the reduced population enumerated at the census. The figures now given show a slight increase in the estimated population, as these are based on the number of inhabited houses and the average number of persons per house obtaining at the census. This latter figure is of considerable importance in connection with present-day housing and public health problems, and a chart is here introduced to show the variations which have occurred during the past half-century. Glasgow.—Diagram showing Number of Persons per House at each Census since 1881. In 1922 a diagram was published showing that the trend of the curve was towards a factor of about four persons per house. It was, however, not expected that the fall would be so