Photocopied extracts from the County of Argyll Seventeenth Annual Report by the Medical Officer of Health Dr Roger MacNeill, pp 46-47
The provision of a horse-drawn ambulance carriage for Tiree; reports of diptheria on Tiree, whooping cough on Coll, typhus fever in Tiree and one case of plague contact.
Photocopied extracts from the County of Argyll Twenty-fourth Annual Report by the Medical Officer of Health Dr Roger MacNeill, pp 44-45, 58-59.
Report by Dr Dan MacKinnon on the state of the fever hospital in Heanish and the need for more detailed specifications for building houses to ensure adequate ventilation, lighting and sanitation.
Photocopied extracts from the County of Argyll Twenty-sixth Annual Report by the Medical Officer of Health Dr Roger MacNeill, pp 36-37.
Report about the provision of nursing in the district – Jessie MacNab in Tiree.
Cases visited in Tiree during the Poor Law Inquiry of 1843
Transcription of an extract from the Minutes of Evidence of the Poor Law Inquiry in 1843 with notes of cases visited on Tiree.
Two Commissioners from the Poor Law Inquiry visited Tiree in 1843, one of whom was shown round a sample of thirty poor families across the island by a Mr MacLean of Hynish. Half of the cases visited were on the Poor Roll and received four to six shillings a year from the Parish.
By 1841 the population of Tiree had swelled to 4,961, double what it had been fifty years previously and more than the island could comfortably support. Nearly half the inhabitants were estimated to be living in deep poverty.
Widows with children and elderly spinsters were particularly vulnerable as were landless cottars without a trade. The able-bodied poor had no legal right to assistance and were expected to find employment on the mainland.
Letter from Argyll & Bute Archivist Murdo MacDonald dated 22/11/2000 about doctors on Tiree.
The difficulty in pinpointing the arrival of Dr Buchanan in Tiree and the case of Margaret MacKinnon, wife of Lachlan Lamont, who died in childbirth in 1857.
Photocopied extract from the Dewar Report of 1912 about Jubilee nurses, pp 33-35, 140.
Minutes of Evidence from the Dewar Report of 1912 about the Victoria Jubilee Nusing Association in the Highlands and Islands.
Photocopied extracts from the County of Argyll Twenty-fifth Annual Report by the Medical Officer of Health Dr Roger MacNeill, pp 50-51.
Report (incomplete) by Dr Dan MacKinnon regarding the lack of shelter, poor soil drainage and the sanitation and water supply.
Two travel identity cards for Margaret MacLean, teacher at Ruaig School.
Two travel identity cards for Margaret MacLean, teacher at Ruaig School, one of which is dated 1950.
Correspondence between Dr Hunter and Argyll County Medical Officer regarding medical supplies, 1945-46.
Copied letters to and from Dr David G Hunter, Baugh, regarding his request for medical supplies for use in emergencies: (1) 3/1/1945 from Dr Hunter to Dr Guy, the County Medical Officer for Argyll, asking whether he can be supplied with the emergency items of two ampoules of normal saline and glucose, a bottle of dried plasma and sterile water, (2) 10/12/1945 from Dr John Guy to Dr Hunter in reply to his letter of 3/12/1945, (3) 10/12/1945 from Dr John Guy to the County Clerk forwarding Dr Hunter`s letter of 3/12/1945 and asking the matter to be put to the Public Health Committee, (4) 10/12/1945 from Dr John Guy to the County Clerk about Dr Hunter`s letter of 3/12/1945, (5) extract from the minutes of a meeting of Argyll Public Health Committee dated 17/1/1946 about Dr Hunter`s request to be supplied with a blood transfusion outfit.
Scarinish Public School Admission Register 1889-1962.
Scarinish Public School Admission Register from 18th December 1889 to 26th February 1962 giving date of admission, child`s full name, name and address of parent or guardian, date of child`s birth, last school attended, examination results, date and cause of leaving.
This, and all other school admission registers that we held, has now been returned to Argyll & Bute Council archives
