National Health Service Medical Card, 1948
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 `Water from the Seventh Wave` 2001
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.
Old glass `Schweppe` bottle
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.
Questionnaire relating to the case for State Medical Services for the poor in 1850.
Photocopy of a typed questionnaire about medical services in Tiree & Coll in the 1840s, completed in handwriting. Formed part of Dr Morrice McCrae`s report `The Case for State Medical Services for the Poor – Highlands & Islands 1850` (2012.20.1).
Click here to view 2012.20.2
Cover of an Annual Report from the Tiree Medical Practice, ca. 2008
Front cover of an Annual Report of the Tiree [Medical] Practice, `Iomraidh na Bliadhna, Bho`n Dotair a` Tiriodh`, from around 2008, with a colour photograph of rowing boat on Traigh Gott with the pier in the distance.
Photograph of Mrs Margaret Hunter (nee Findlater) ca 1930.
Black & white portrait photograph of Mrs Margaret Hunter around 1930. Known as Nurse Findlater, she met and married Dr David Hunter while working on Tiree during the 1930s. They lived at Baugh House. The couple later moved to Aberdeenshire(?), returning occasionally to holiday on Tiree.
Four photos and accompanying letters about Dr David Hunter, GP on Tiree during the 1930s
Four original black & white photographs of Dr David Hunter and his wife Margaret (nee Findlater), Baugh House and surgery, and a view from Middleton/Barrapol, during a holiday to Tiree in the late 1950s / early 60s (before 1964). Dr Hunter was the GP on Tiree during the 1930s and his wife was the nurse. The accompanying letters from his great-nephew, Allan Stephen, has further information. Photos accessioned separately as Q125-Q128.
Photograph of Dr David Hunter and his wife Margaret, ca 1960
Black & white photograph of Dr David Hunter and his wife Margaret standing by their car (in Aberdeenshire?) ca 1960. Dr Hunter was the GP on Tiree during the 1930s.
Photograph of Baugh House and surgery, ca. 1960
Black & white photograph of the exterior of Baugh House and surgery around the 1960s. Standing in front of the house are Mrs Margaret Hunter and her niece, Mrs Stephen. Dr and Mrs Hunter were the GP and nurse on Tiree during the 1930s.
Colour photograph of the new surgery during construction in 2000.
The new surgery at Baugh during construction in 2000.
