Notice from the Edinburgh Gazette 1927 regarding changes to the powers of the Gott Bay Pier Trustees
Printed transcript of a notice from the Edinburgh Gazette 1927 regarding changes to the powers of the Gott Bay Pier Board of Trustees to set levys and rates for ballast, water etc. Trustees named: Hugh MacDiarmid, Island House, Rev Kenneth MacKay, Gott, Colin Brown, Scarinish, Malcolm MacLean, Kirkapol, Donald MacArthur, Scarinish, Malcom MacKinnon, Scarinish, William George MacDiamid, Island House, Dr Thomas Wyper Stewart, Easdale.
Letter about the Cornaigmore Mill and Tiree doctors, 1997
Photocopy of a letter from the Argyll & Bute archivist, Murdo MacDonald, to Hector MacPail, Ruaig, dated 26 March 1997, regarding information about millers at the Cornaigmore meal mill from 1864 to the 1920s, and doctors between 1911 and 1929.
Original `Notice of the Requirement of Vaccination` issued under the Compulsory Vaccination Act to all newborns under the age of 6 months. Made out to Hugh Hector MacArthur (Caoles?) on 19 Oct. 1899. None of the certificates are signed or returned to the Registrar, so perhaps Hugh Hector did not receive the vaccination.
Large white-painted wooden chest containing First Aid equipment of the ambulance service at Tiree Aerodrome pre-1980. A typed inventory of items present includes: bandages, dressings, gauze, cotton wool, tourniquets, rescue sheets, paracetamol, pins, plasters, drinking glass, scissors and casualty labels.
Full printed text (without photographs) on loose sheets from the summer 2001 exhibition at An Iodhlann about Tiree`s doctors, healers, health and remedies. Written by Dr John Holliday.
Collection of original letters, documents, photographs etc. from 1920-1970, found in Colin MacPhail`s byre at Crossapol. Includes: correspondence and articles regarding school, doctors, foster children and personal shopping. For example:
Original NHS Medical Card and postal delivery envelope, belonging to John MacLean, The Brae, Cornaigbeg, stamped 20 August 1948, with GP given as Dr D G Hunter. This card was issued when the NHS was first formed. Includes photocopy of both items.
Booklet about the history of health and healing on Tiree, from superstitions and traditional remedies to lay doctors, diseases, dentists, appointed GPs, nurses and ambulance services. Researched by Dr John Holliday for a summer exhibition at An Iodhlann.
Tall, round-bottomed glass bottle found in the dump behind Baugh Surgey in 2012. Pale clear glass with large raised lettering all around bottle reading “J.Schweppe & Co., 51 Berners Street, Oxford Street, genuine superior, aerated waters”. Probably used for administering medicines.
