Minutes of the College Council, RCPE, 21 June1850.
3.
RCPE pamphlets No.13.
4.
Report on the Highlands and Islands medical service Cd. 6559, 1912.
5.
Since the reorganisation of the local government in 1975, county councils have been abolished. The area discussed now lies in the regions covered by the Highland and Argyll & Bute Councils.
6.
TM Devine. The great Highland famine Edinburgh: John Donald, 1988: 4–12, 25–6.
SteelT. The life and death of St KildaGlasgow: HarperCollins, 1975:149.
12.
Poor Law Magazine 1890; 33:368.
13.
LevittISmoutTC. The state of the Scottish working class in 1843Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1979.
14.
New Statistical Account 15:72.
15.
Geikie SirA. Scottish reminiscencesGlasgow: James Maclehose & Sons, 1908:111–2.
16.
Dewar Report:10.
17.
New Statistical Account 15:85.
18.
Oral evidence of Henrietta Groundwater, Orkney Islands Archive Office, D31/1/13.
19.
SteelT. The life and death of St KildaGlasgow: HarperCollins, 1975:153.
20.
RCPE Report; Return of John MacLeod, minister of Morven.
21.
GeikieA. Scottish reminiscencesGlasgow: James Maclehose & Sons, 1904:162–4.
22.
RCPE Report; Return of minister of Delting, Shetland.
23.
It should be emphasised that the ideas all came from the ministers. The RCPE merely quoted those they found pertinent.
24.
Poor Law Amendment (Scotland) Act 8 and 9 Vict. cap. 83, clauses66–9.
25.
The parochial medical service is described in Blackden S. The Board of Supervision and the Scottish Parochial Medical Service, 1845–1895 Med Hist 1986; 30:145–72.
26.
Lochcarron Parochial Board Minutes, 10 May1855.
27.
RCPE Report; returns of surgeons of Assynt, Invergordon and North Uist.
28.
Board of Supervision Seventh Annual Report 1852, pvii, Poor Law Magazine 1868;92–3.
29.
RCPE Report; Return of surgeon of Clachan.
30.
Lochcarron Parochial Board Minutes, 30 April1862.
31.
Dunrossness Parish Council Minutes, 10 November 1903; 3 January1904.
TaylorR. Doctors, paupers and landowners Northern Scotland4:113–20.
34.
Lochcarron Parochial Board Minutes, 4 August 1857; Report of the Royal Commission appointed to enquire into the state of lunatic asylums in Scotland PP5 1857; 156–7, 264–5.
