Health & Disease

Reports in this section:

• 1842 report on the collier population of East Lothian
• Report on outbreak of typhoid in Larkhall, 1905
• Some 1905 deaths in Motherwell Hospital
• The Health Conditions of Coal Mining by James Barrowman, 1896 
• The Health of Old Colliers by J. S. Haldane, 1916
• Mining Mortality by James Barrowman, 1898
• On Phthisis Among Coal Miners. By T. G. Nasmyth, 1892
• On the Expectoration of Black matter from the Lungs By George Steele, Esq., Surgeon, Musselburgh, 1837 (names mentioned - D Wilson age 50, T Ross, Abram Bennett, aged 68, stone minerD Wilson age 50, T Ross, Abram Bennett, aged 68, stone miner)
  

• Sanitary Inquiry – On the Sanitary Condition and General Economy of the Town of Tranent, and the Neighbouring District in Haddingtonshire, 1840