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Smallpox

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Diary of Robert Laws (1851-1934)

 Fonds
Identifier: MS LAW
Scope and Contents

Diary of Robert Laws, later missionary in Livingstonia, from his time as an agent of the Glasgow City Mission at fever and smallpox hospitals in the Glasgow area. Contains statistical information about patients at the beginning of the diary.

A note, presummably written by Laws, is pasted onto the verso of the front cover giving a bit of context for the diary. A newsclipping from The Scotsman, 15 October 1993, about the diary is laid in the front of the volume.

Dates: 1873-1875; 15 October 1993
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Joe, Alexander

 Fonds
Identifier: GD1-94
Scope and Contents

Notes on Fever hospital administration, diphtheria and scarlet fever by A. Joe; staffing literature 1948; articles by A. Joe and C. B. Ker on infectious diseases 1896-1952

Dates: 1896-1952
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive

PR2.8207, 1949

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.8207
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and report relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 16 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; fits; smallpox; and developmental problems. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1949
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 2)