From Physicians’ Enquiry to Dewar Report: A Survey of Medical Services in the West Highlands and Islands of Scotland,1852–1912: Part Ii

Resolis Parochial Board Minutes, 22 September 1884; 10 December 1884.

RCPE Report; Return of the surgeon of South Uist.

Document lodged in Inverness Archives Office.

Arrochar Parochial Board Minutes, 23 November1878.

Steel T . The life and death of St Kilda Glasgow: HarperCollins, 1975:147.

Loch Carron Parochial Board Minutes, 9 May1872.

A copy of the Constitution and rules of the Shapinsay Medical Association is in Orkney Islands Archives, Kirkwall.

Clyne Parish Council Minutes, 30 April 1907.

Letter to the Shetland Times, 27 June1855.

Dewar Report: 12, 24.

Dewar Report:24.

Stornoway Parish Council Minutes, 28 July, 25 August1897.

Dewar Report: 19,29.

Departmental Committee: 161 para.4852.

Report of the Departmental Committee appointed by the Local Government Board for Scotland to enquire into the system of Poor Law medical relief pp.XXXIII 1904.

Departmental Committee: 70, para.145.

This long saga is detailed in the Minute Book of Papa Westray Parish Council in the Orkney Islands Archives.

Departmental Committee:70.

Taylor HP . A Shetland parish doctor Lerwick 1948: 19.

Taylor HP . A Shetland parish doctor Lerwick 1948: 59.

Dewar Report: 738; Papa Westray Parish Council Minutes.

Dewar Report:25.

Dewar Report:21–2.

Papa Westray Parish Council Minutes.

Information supplied by Brian Smith, archivist, Shetland Islands Council.

Roland C Rubashewsky B . The economic status and practice of Dr Harmaunus Smith in Wentworth County, Ontario, 1826–67. In: Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 1988; 5:29–49.

RCPE Report; see returns of the ministers of Poolewe, Kildalton and Westray.

Dewar Report: 20, para.992.

Departmental Committee: 177, paras 5307–12; Dewar Report:9.

Dewar Report: Evidence of Dr Cochran, para.6860.

Taylor HP . A Shetland parish doctor CITY?, Lerwick 1948: 91.

Dewar Report: 26–7. See also Stornoway Parish Council Minutes, 30 April 1902; 26 October1904.

Lorne Poorhouse Minutes.

Departmental Committee: 161; Evidence of Dr Duncan, medical officer to Thurso Combination Poorhouse.

Dewar Report: 17; Departmental Committee:70–1.

This question is discussed with regard to Orkney in Rex Taylor, ‘Doctors, Paupers and Landowners', Northern Scotland 4:113–120.

Highlands and Islands (Medical Services) Grant Act 1913, 3 and 4 George V cap.26.

Hamilton David . The Highlands and Islands Medical Services. In: McLachlan Gordon , ed. Improving the Common Weal; Aspects of Scottish Health Services 1900–1984 Edinburgh 1987: 483–90.