Various titles (see below).

An extremely informative and illuminating collection of twenty-nine scarce ephemeral items in the field of socio-economic local history. All 8vo unless otherwise stated. All in very good condition, but requiring rebinding or disbinding, as the binding is in poor repair, with the spine lacking. Items as follows: 'An act to confer further sanitary powers on the magistrates and council of the City and Royal Burgh of Glasgow' (19 pages, 1890), 'An act to provide building regulations for the City of Glasgow, and for other purposes (67 pages, 1892), 'The law about infectious diseases [Corporation of the City of Glasgow (Police Department)]' (8 pages, 1899), 'Hints about the prevention of scarlet fever [Committee on Health of Glasgow]' (4 pages, 1898), 'Hints about the prevention of consumption [Committee of Health of Glasgow]' (4 pages, 1896), 'Hints about the management of children [Committee on Health of Glasgow]' (4 pages, revised, May 1894), 'City of Glasgow Fever Hospital. Rules and regulations for guidance of nurses and probationers' (8 pages, 1885), 'Glasgow Police (Amendment) Act, 1890. Notice to Teachers, Heads of Families, and Others' (1 page, 1895), 'Rules and regulations for the proper sanitary conditions of cow-houses and byres. City and Royal Burgh of Glasgow' (16mo, 8 pages, Printed by Robert Anderson, 1894), 'The contagious diseases (animals) acts, 1878 and 1886. [Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milk-shops order of 1885 and amending order of 1887]. City and Royal Burgh of Glasgow' (16mo, 12 pages, Printed by Robert Anderson, 1897), 'Glasgow Corporation Baths and Wash-houses' (27 pages, 1891), 'Glasgow Corporation Baths and Wash-houses. Report by William Thomson, General Superintendent (19 pages, 1892), 'Bye-laws for pigstyes in Glasgow' (5 pages, 1898), 'Houses let in lodgings and farmed-out houses. Bye law' (8 pages, 1898), 'Bye-laws for common lodging-houses in Glasgow' (10 pages, 1898), 'Bye-laws for the cleansing of unoccupied cellars and roofs of outhouses by owners' (3 pages, 1896), 'Bye-laws for the cleansing of common stairs, lobbies, passages, sinks, and water-closets, by the tenants in rotation' (6 pages, 1896), 'Further bye-laws for the regulation of cemeteries' (2 pages, 1890), 'An enquiry into the vital statistics of school ages' by A. K. Chalmers, Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow (26 pages, 1898), 'Extract from minutes of meeting of the Glasgow Police Commissioners, held on 24th November, 1890 ['Poison in Green Peas'] (1 page, 1890), 'Report on the greening of French vegetables with sulphate of copper' (13 pages, 1890), 'Report to the magistrates and council of the City of Glasgow,, on the refuse water of chemical works and other factories' by Dr William Wallace (27 pages and fold-out table, 1885), 'Pollution of the river Clyde and some of its causes' [reprinted from The Sanitary Journal] (15 pages, with map and two fold-out tables, 1894), 'The by-products of the blast furnace' by A. Humboldt Sexton [reprinted from the Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow] (14 pages with diagram and photographic illustration, 1896), 'The sewage of the air' by Peter Fyfe, Chief Sanitary Inspector, Glasgow (16 pages, 1892), 'Some important pointnts in the sanitary work of a great city' by Peter Fyfe, Sanitary Inspector, Glasgow (16 pages, with a fold-out plan, 1888), 'The position of Scotland with regard to central sanitary administration' (12 pages, no date), 'The plumber: his present position and future prospects [reprinted from The Sanitary Journal]' (23 pages, with 2 diagrams, 1895), 'The education and registration of sanitary inspectors [reprinted from The Sanitary Journal]' by Peter Fyfe, Sanitary Inspector, Glasgow (14 pages, 1894). From the library of the Librarian of the Medical Society of London, Nehemiah Asherson. The first item bears the stamp of the Medical Research Council Library. With binder's ticket of W. H. Wardley of Guernsey. The lot,