Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 61, 12/5/1993.
Local news including the shared taxi/local bus service, article about a Gaelic survey by Dr John Holliday, the risks of cataracts, Kilkenneth 2 by Sandy MacKinnon, corncrakes, a visit by CalMac managers in the summer, and news from the feis.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 63, 8/6/1993.
Local news including appeals against Council Tax Banding, the proposed privatisation of CalMac, the value of regular exercise by the doctor, Kilkenneth 4 by Sandy MacKinnon, the weather, SNH grants, Gaelic Partnerships, the Corncrake Intitiative, BBC visit to Hynish, and news from the feis, Sandaig museum and the windsurfing club.
Letter dated 2/5/1988 to Dr John Holliday from Gordon Donald.
Letter dated 2/5/1988 to Dr John Holliday from Gordon Donald about `gaoth nan galar` the south-east wind.
Hardback book `Ban-Altrumachd aig an Tigh`.
Nursing at home in Gaelic with separate list of medical/nursing terms and phrases in English and Gaelic.
Box of dental needles.
Small red cardboard box (68 x 47 x 13 mm) containing 4 glass vials with cork stoppers each containing interchangeable aseptic steel dental hypodermic needles made by Parke, Davis & Co, London.
Argyll & Bute District Council report `Mull, Coll & Tiree Local Plan`, 1987.
Monitoring plan for Mull, Tiree and Coll setting out the local authority`s policies, proposals and recommendations covering population, rural matters, industry and employment, housing, tourism, transport, public utilities and services.
Photocopied medical survey of Tiree and Coll dated 1850.
Survey of medical provision in the parish of Tiree and Coll dated December 1850.
Photocopied letter to Sir Edward Coffin dated 26/1/1847 from Royal Navy Commander Baynton.
Letter to Sir Edward Coffin dated 26/1/1847 from Royal Navy Commander Baynton about the severe shortage of food and the appearance of typhus and cholera on Tiree.
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Doctor`s bag dating from WWII and medical equipment belonging to donor`s father, Dr Stuart Robertson.
Doctor`s bag dating from WWII belonging to Dr Stuart Robertson, GP in Margate 1926-40 and in Bournemouth 1940-60. Bag contains: an emergency enema in an envelope with a letter from the manufacturer`s Harker Stagg Ltd dated February 1959; empty bluish glass bottle with glass stopper; black case inscribed with Dr Stuart Robertson conatining 7 empty phials (pethidine, mogadon, etc); suspensory bandage from Army & Navy Stores in its box; Leslies Ltd catalogue dated August 1940 of medical and surgical plasters; empty glass bottle with cork stopper labelled Alkia Saltrates;packet of surgical staples; metal case containing glass syringe and hypodermic needles; brown glass jar containing collosal iodine ointment; two aluminium spatulas; screw top metal box of surgeons` finger stalls; lance; tongue depresser; box containing seven tubes of horsehair sutures and needles.
Metal tin containing empty ointment boxes, empty lozenge tins and a pin-on apron. It also used to contain sterile dressings.
