2001.97.28

Photocopied extracts from the County of Argyll Fifth Annual Report by the Medical Officer of Health Dr Roger MacNeill, pp 26-27.

Report by Dr Buchanan about an outbreak of scarlet fever spread through the schools.

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Scarlet fever outbreak in 1895

The island`s doctor, Dr Buchanan, is quoted in the Medical Officer of Health`s Fifth Annual Report (1895), regarding an outbreak of scarlet fever that originated in Glasgow and spread through the schools and townships in the west of the island.

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