This collection consists of ESRI shapefiles for Glasgow around 1910: - sanitary district boundaries in 1903 (Sanitary_Districts.shp, etc.) - municipal ward boundaries in 1912 (Wards_1912.shp, etc.) - registration district boundaries within the area of the City of Glasgow in 1913 (Registration_Districts.shp, etc.) - routes of main rivers (River Clyde and River Kelvin) around 1915 (Rivers.shp, etc.) - route of the Glasgow Subway around 1915 (Subway.shp, etc.) For details of shapefile construction, please see the descriptions in the following article: Angelopoulos, K., Stewart, G. and Mancy, R. Local infectious disease experience influences vaccine refusal rates: a natural experiment. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1986. Details of construction and references to original map sources are provided in the second paragraph of the section "Geographic conversion" in the online supplementary materials of the above reference. Further information about the boundaries is provided in the caption of Figure S1 of the supplementary materials. Additional contextual information is provided in both the main text and supplementary materials.